Can Tax Policy Address the Childcare Crisis?

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: Jordan Parrish Audio Editor: Laura Kondourajian **** This episode is sponsored by Portugal Pathways. For more information, visit portugalpathways.io . This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine School of Law Graduate Tax Program. For more information, visit law.uci.edu/gradtax .

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Can Tax Policy Address the Childcare Crisis? is an episode from Tax Notes Talk by Tax Notes.

This episode is 25:39 long.

This episode was published on May 1, 2026.

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