Can Tax Policy Address the Childcare Crisis?

Can Tax Policy Address the Childcare Crisis?

From Tax Notes Talk by Tax Notes

May 1, 2026 · 25 min

About this episode

Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan discusses her proposal for a tax benefit aimed at individual childcare service providers to help working parents manage costs.

Professor Lauren Shores Pelikan of the University of Missouri School of Law discusses her proposal to create a tax benefit for individual childcare service providers to ease costs for working parents. For more on Shores Pelikan's proposal, read "Toddlers, Investors, and Tax Policy." For more on the LendingTree study, read "It Costs an Additional $303,418 to Raise a Child Over 18 Years, Up 1.9%." ** Credits Host: David D. Stewart Executive Producers: Jeanne Rauch-Zender, Paige Jones Producer: ...

People in this episode

Host: David D. Stewart

Guest: Lauren Shores Pelikan

Topics covered

  • tax policy
  • childcare crisis
  • working parents
  • tax benefits
  • cost of raising children

Keywords

  • tax policy
  • childcare
  • working parents
  • tax benefits
  • cost of raising children

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Missouri School of Law

Books & works: Toddlers, Investors, and Tax Policy, It Costs an Additional $303,418 to Raise a Child Over 18 Years, Up 1.9%

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