The Trump administration is moving to allow married couples with a stay-at-home spouse to collect child care subsidies using funds from a federal program intended to assist working parents that was created in the 1990s to help low and moderate-income and working-class parents afford child care so they could work or go to school.
Under the draft new rule, married parents who stay home with their children could benefit from the program, which typically provides about $9,000 per child each year, potentially reshaping which families get federal child care money.
This would be only for Married Parents.
First, 35% of children live in a single parent household.
Second, 66% of black children live in a single parent household.
Third, to receive Medicaid any 19 to 64 dults must complete 80 hours of work a month in order to receive health coverage.
Fourth, about 80 percent of the 870,000 families who currently get the child care subsidies have single working parents, most of them mothers, according to Health Department data. NY Times
And, if you will recall, Trump said he wants to partially pay for the Iran war by eliminating day care payments.
