SEIU President: “Clinton Plan for Investments in Caregiving Economy Will”

“Secretary Clinton’s record proves that she is a tough and tested fighter for our nation and for working men and women”. He’s 52, a part-time librarian from Brookline, N.H. – and he works part-time so that he can care for his mother, who has Alzheimer’s. She is seeking a tax credit to help offset up to $6,000 in caregiving costs for elderly family members.

Clinton was discussing the proposed changes at a meet-the-voters event on Sunday in Iowa, where she is trying to consolidate recent gains over Sanders in the polls.

“That will help family budgets stretch, it will help seniors maintain independence”, Clinton noted.

Hillary Clinton has shifted her focus to tax cuts.

The caregivers credit comes as part of a series of middle-class tax benefits Clinton is beginning to unveil as part of her campaign. Her plan promised to “demand a stop to excessive profiteering and marketing by denying tax breaks for direct-to-consumer advertising and demanding that drug companies invest in R&D in exchange for taxpayer support – rather than marketing or excessive profits”.

The plan would also allow people like Thompson to earn credit toward their Social Security for family caregiving.

Both Clinton and her fellow Democratic contender Bernie Sanders have called for reining in prescription drug prices.

Meanwhile, Republican National Committee spokesman Fred Brown said, “Hillary Clinton’s solution to every pressing policy issue is to expand government and raise taxes, and this plan is no different as it will cost hardworking Americans billions”, questioning the proposal, reports LA Times. In today’s economy these workers who feed, bathe and dress our loved ones don’t make enough to provide the basics for their own families.

Clinton has said she supports paid family leave but has not embraced a bill introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor as a senator from NY, that dozens of progressive lawmakers have lined up behind in both chambers of Congress. “We are there miracle workers”, Lizabeth Bonilla, a home care worker from Las Vegas, told Clinton about her job. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

She also pledged to help with a host of other problems, including college and health care costs. President Obama has asked to up the allocation to $5 million.

It also signals a push to win over organized labor by his campaign as the Granite State remains a close race between the top two Democrats – Sanders and Hillary Clinton.