 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to the Detroit Economic Club at the Cobo Center in Detroit on Thursday. (Reuters/Eric Thayer) By Danielle Paquette Donald Trump unveiled his economic vision in a Detroit speech Monday, tackling jobs, wages and … child care. The Republican presidential nominee drifted from his party's familiar territory and proposed a way to make the service more affordable for struggling American families. Trump's idea: Allow working parents to "fully deduct" the expenses from their taxes. Now both Trump and Clinton have announced ambitious plans for the future of American child care, and they share two characteristics: Both are ambiguous, and neither candidate has outlined how they'd pay for it all. The biggest difference between the plans is perhaps who they would serve. Trump is targeting working families. Hillary Clinton's includes relief for the out-of-work poor. By offering child-care relief as income-tax deduction, Trump's move would likely save middle- and upper-class households money. Read the rest on Wonkblog.
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