Think Progress, September 7, 2016: Donald Trump’s Solution For the Child Care Crisis Is Already Failing

“Even Trump’s businesses may have decided the equation doesn’t work out. In November, he claimed that his companies run two different on-site daycare programs —  ‘I do it all over, and I get great people because of it’ — but there is no evidence that that is indeed the case. The Associated Press spoke with Trump employees across the country and reviewed handbooks and found no trace of on-site childcare. The two programs he cited by name, ‘Trump Kids’ and ‘Trumpeteers,’ are offered to company clients, not employees. Trump has offered another potential solution to the skyrocketing cost of childcare: allowing families to fully deduct the cost of childcare from their taxes. Yet such a proposal would only help the very wealthiest who spend the most and have the highest tax obligations and do nothing for low-income families who struggle the most to afford care.”