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• Talking Taxes: How the Childcare Credit Works

  Do you send your kids to daycare? Have an in-home sitter?  As long as you work - and pay the nanny/manny/babysitter on the books - families with two kids can claim up to $6,000 in tax credits this year. So how does it work? Read More... Posted Mar 26 2009, 03:36 PM by JeanneSager with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: work, money, childcare, recession, dependent child, taxes, Jeanne Sager, babysitter, tax credit, employer

• Mommy's Little Tax Deduction, And How To Get It

  You know how everyone always gives you lots of unsolicited advice before you have a baby? Like, "your life is gonna change forever!" or "sleep when the baby sleeps"? One thing people rarely tell you, but should, is this: daycare is hella expensive. Luckily, there are a few ways you can defray these costs -- and here are some helpful calculators to figure it all out   Read More... Posted Dec 12 2008, 01:33 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: infant, baby, child, childcare, expensive, daycare, taxes, cost, tax, tax credit, dependent care, daycare tax credit, expenses

• Bipartisan Group Says McCain Would Be Bad for Kids' Health

  First Focus, a bipartisan children’s advocacy group, has released a statement warning voters that John McCain’s health care plan would result in millions of American children going without health insurance. McCain’s proposal centers around a flat tax credit, which would be given to every family, regardless of size or income, to be used to buy health insurance. (The money for these credits would be raised, at least in part, by cutting Medicaid and Medicare.) Read More... Posted Oct 22 2008, 06:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, health care, health insurance, insurance companies, bad for kids, election, obama, McCain, public, market, uninsured, private, tax credit, pre-existing conditions, guaranteed coverage, inadequate, first focus, mccain bad for kids' health, competitive