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Boxer, pushing bigger child-care tax credit, gets boost from Obama

Obama today proposed nearly doubling the federal child care tax credit for families earning less than $85,000 and increasing it for families making less than $115,000. (Emphasis added)

The president's plan is likely to jump-start legislation authored by the Democratic senators called "the Right Start Child Care and Education Act."

Raising the child-care credit would provide "much-needed tax relief for working families," said Boxer. "This is particularly important in this tough economy, where child-care costs are rising twice as fast as household incomes."

Gillibrand also called for an extension of unemployment insurance benefits and the COBRA program that helps jobless Americans pay for health care.