From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 17:33:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D784EBE5 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound5.mailmanager.net (outbound5.mailmanager.net [63.251.90.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F2B981 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:33:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.mailmanager.net (192.168.1.1) by outbound5.mailmanager.net id ho4q7617t409 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:23:14 -0500 (envelope-from ) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: /capad/tools/lm-runner2 0.21 X-CWDir: naccrra X-CWMsg: 240203572 X-CWRecip: 123645520 X-CWQueue: 10680515401 Subject: BREAKING: President Obama Announces Landmark Child Care Proposal To: gnome@freebsd.org From: "Lynette Fraga, Child Care Aware of America" Reply-To: "Lynette Fraga, Child Care Aware of America" Message-ID: <0.0.D5.348.1D036681A790FF6.0@outbound5.mailmanager.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:23:14 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:33:40 -0000 Fresh off the State of the Union, President Obama is set to visit Kansas University today to announce a landmark proposal to help all working families with young children afford child care. President Obama's plan to make affordable, quality child care available to every working and middle-class family with young children includes:Making a significant investment in the Child Care and Development Fund that helps every eligible family with young children afford quality child care.Tripling the maximum child care tax credit to $3,000 per young child.Creating a new innovation fund to help states design programs that better serve families that face unique challenges in finding quality care, such as those in rural areas or working non-traditional hours.Watch the President's Remarks on Child Care live at 12:25pm Eastern at whitehouse.gov/live. Read more about the President's Proposal on our Policy blog at http://capwiz.com/naccrra/utr/1/EKCUUFQOSY/ATZDUFQPRG/10680515401/ The White House Fact Sheet on the proposal can be found here: http://capwiz.com/naccrra/utr/1/EKCUUFQOSY/NFQPUFQPRH/10680515401 To build upon this news on child care, we will be hosting a Tweet Storm today at 2pm ET. Make sure to join and use the hashtags #ChildCare #InvestInUs and #ChildCare Costs and feel free to share any infographics from our cost of care report. To follow along with Child Care Aware of America during the twitter storm at @usachildcare Stay tuned to Child Care Aware of America and visit our website at www.usa.childcareaware.org for the latest on the President's new child care proposal. My best,Lynette Fraga, Ph.D. --- If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from us, please visit http://capwiz.com/naccrra/lmx/u/?jobid=240203572&queueid=10680515401.