Should Government Provide Free Daycare Centers?

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Should the government provide day care centers for working parents? Parents who are working hard to provide there family a good meal and to pay the rent, the least the government can do for these people is to help out a parent by providing free child care centers for working parents right? Guess what, the republicans and the democrats from congress have been doing something about it. There have at least been 70 bills that have been introduced by both of them, but it seems like the house of representative keep turning down every single one of them. (Noble) Government should pass a law that provides free daycare centers because that would be one thing less that the working parents would have to worry about. Free daycare centers will help a parent a lot by not having to worry about paying, they could go and by more groceries more often or they could save that money for their child’s education. It doesn’t seem like much but if the government provides daycares centers it would really help out a working parent, and they would appreciate it. If a hard working parent has a lot by having to worry about paying the bills. Why should a parent have to worry about paying for a daycare center? (Shellenbarger) Government should be able to pay for daycare centers, they should provide it for working parents after all the parents are working for the government, who’s do they use to fix the roads. Government takes a lot of money away from people. They take taxes away each time a parent receives their paycheck. The government might say that a parent makes enough to be able to pay the daycares centers, that is true but does the government forget that parents still have to pay bills, and buy food. Some people from the government don’t know that it is a... ... middle of paper ... ...r everybody in their town or community. Works Cited noble, kenneth. "THE NATION; PRO & CON: HOW MUCH GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO FOR PARENTS." New York Times 1 may 1988, Print. fagan, patrick, and rector robert. "The Clinton Day Care Proposal: An Attack on Parents and Children." Heritage Foundation (1998): n. pag. Web. 17 May 2010. . bane, mary jo, laura lein, lydia o'donnell, and barbara wells. "Child Crae Arrangements of working parents." Johns hopkins university press, 1 october 1979. Web. 17 May 2010. . Shellenbarger, Sue . "Should the Government Help Provide Child Care?." Wall Street Journal (2010): n. pag. Web. 17 May 2010. .

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