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REVISED DRAFT 11-28
Helped-Helping Families Succeed on the Job And At Home
THEN: Working families faced special problems in attempting to succeed at home and on the
job. The Family and Medical Leave Act had been vetoed twice, denying parents 12 weeks of
leave to care for a newborn child or sick family member. Paychecks of working families
continued to lose pace to inflation, dropping 4.3 percent in real value. Quality child care for
working families was increasingly difficult to find and afford, and federal assistance served a
small fraction of those who needed help.
NOW: President Clinton has kept his promise to make it easier for families that work hard and
play by the rules to make ends meet and care for their children.
President Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993 - the first law he signed
as President. Today, more than 20 million Americans have taken unpaid leave to care for a
newborn child or sick family member.
To help hard-pressed working families, President Clinton passed a $500 per child tax credit,
a $1 per hour increase in the minimum wage, and provided tax cuts for 15 million working
families by expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, which provides the average family
receiving the EITC with $1,000 per year.
The Clinton-Gore Administration has significantly expanded child care opportunities for
working families. They have more than doubled funding for federal child care, which now
provides assistance to 1.5 million families. The welfare reform law signed by President
Clinton provided an additional $4 billion in child care assistance over six years to families
moving from welfare to work and other low-income families. The Administration has also
provided after-school opportunities to approximately 850,000 children SO that more parents
know that their children are in safe learning environment during the after-school hours.
President Clinton and Vice President Gore have nearly doubled funding for the Head Start
program, expanded the program to more than 160,000 additional children, enacted critical
quality improvements, and created the Early Start program targeted to development of
younger children.
The President fought for and signed new legislation giving parents new tools to protect their
children from media violence by requiring the installation of anti-violence screening chips
(V-chips) in all new televisions. The President also worked with the entertainment industry
to create a new ratings system for television programs and the computer industry to establish
ratings for video games.
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