Tag: Family

The proposal from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is the best we've seen for expanding paid leave to more parents. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Marco Rubio’s eye falls on a parental-leave solution

Washington Examiner · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., tweeted that said a secretary was pleased with her $1.50 raise per paycheck due to the Republican tax bill, and said it would "more than cover her Costco membership for the year." However, the DCCC's campaign says that small pay increase is not enough compared to the bigger tax cuts wealthier Americans are seeing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

DCCC ad mocks Paul Ryan for touting woman’s $1.50 per paycheck tax cut

Katelyn Caralle · February 5, 2018 8:05 pm

Just as Social Security allows both early and deferred retirement benefits, which are compensated for with an adjustment in the size of benefits, policymakers should recognize that some people have a far greater need for support at other times — such as after giving birth. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Rationalize the safety net with this simple paid family leave reform

Carrie Lukas · February 1, 2018 4:44 pm

President Trump during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress called for a policy on paid family leave. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Despite what Trump said in the State of the Union, family leave paid for by government is a terrible idea

Daniel Payne · January 31, 2018 4:02 pm

A silver lining to this horror story is that perhaps it will prompt people to be more attentive to those around them, to take the time to chat with their neighbors without feeling like they're prying into their lives. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Beltway Confidential

The horror next door

Gary Bauer · January 26, 2018 10:36 pm

Prodigies and Parenting

Naomi Schaefer Riley · January 12, 2018 9:00 am

A Missouri lawmaker calls for Gov. Eric Greitens' resignation after Greitens acknowledged he was "unfaithful" in his marriage but denies allegations that he blackmailed the woman he had an extramarital affair with in 2015 to stay quiet. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri lawmaker calls on Gov. Eric Greitens to resign after affair, blackmail allegations

Anna Giaritelli · January 11, 2018 12:48 pm

The Trump administration is considered splitting up families who enter the United States illegally from Mexico. The proposed plan means families could face separation because parents would be held at detention facilities prior to being deported and their children would remain under protective custody at juvenile shelters. (Tanya Moutzalias/The Ann Arbor News-MLive.com Detroit via AP)

Trump administration weighs policy that could split up families who enter US illegally

Diana Stancy Correll · December 22, 2017 2:22 pm

Parenting with the Internet

Naomi Schaefer Riley · December 22, 2017 9:00 am

The tax bill Republicans are passing is deeply unpopular precisely because people don't believe it is a tax cut. Here's something you simply wouldn't know from reading the media accounts of the bill: This bill will shift a greater portion of the federal tax burden onto the wealthy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

People oppose this tax cut because they’ve been told it’s a tax hike

Timothy P. Carney · December 20, 2017 2:07 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., had asked for three big changes to the $2,000 credit included in the Senate-passed bill, which was doubled versus current law. But he only got a little of what he asked for. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

A closer look at what Marco Rubio got added to the Republican tax bill at the last minute

Joseph Lawler · December 16, 2017 5:53 pm

The Hidden Cost of California’s Housing Crisis

The Hidden Cost of California’s Housing Crisis

patrick-brown, Jonathan Coppage · December 14, 2017 9:50 am