Example sentences for: child-care

How can you use “child-care” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At what might be called the tail-end of a White House event highlighting Clinton education and child-care proposals, with Hillary at his side, the president stated, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

  • The New York Times front is a campaign manager's dream: The lead is Al Gore's vow yesterday that if elected president, he would ban offshore drilling for gas and oil along both the California and Florida coasts (the Clinton administration policy is a mere moratorium), and nearby is a reefer reporting that Bill Bradley yesterday advocated attacking child poverty by raising the minimum wage, increasing child-care spending, and providing working parents with various tax benefits.

  • We Americans profess to be so concerned with kids, and education, and early brain development, and on and on, and even today working moms are subject to tremendous amounts of disapproval for supposedly compromising their children's whatever, no matter how terrific their child-care arrangements are, but now we are taking the most vulnerable kids and saying we don't care what kind of arrangements you make, just show up for your sub-minimum-wage street-cleaning job, which will hardly ever lead to a real job, and which you have to drop out of school to get to.

  • (Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.)

  • Commentators are commending the administration's strategic acumen in proposing to expand child-care benefits and let 55-year-olds buy into Medicare.


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