Washington Post

By: Catherine Rampell

Democrats have been casting about for a winning theme this November. Here’s one suggestion: Kids. After all, despite once declaring themselves the party of family values, Republican politicians have more recently ceded this territory. The GOP is now the party of state-sanctioned child abuse, of taking health care away from poor children, of leaving young immigrant “dreamers” in legal limbo.

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Such proposals include expanding access to high-quality early-childhood education, a cost-effective strategy for reducing future criminal-justice system costs and other social spending. Or offering parents paid leave, which is supposedly a priority of the Trump administration, though aside from a recent Senate hearing, still hasn’t gotten much traction. Or expanding parents’ access to Medicaid, which has been shown to improve health outcomes for their children.

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