About That Joe Biden Op-Ed From 1981
During the debates, Kirsten Gillibrand accused the former vice president of disparaging working women. The truth is a little murkier.
by Joe Pinsker
Aug 01, 2019
4 minutes
In the late stages of last night’s Democratic-primary debate, the presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand brought up a short newspaper article published in 1981.
The article, written by one Joseph R. Biden, was an op-ed arguing against a tax credit that would help families pay for child care. Biden, then a senator representing Delaware, made the case that by encouraging more high-earning parents to send their kids to day care, such a tax credit would, among other things, lead to “the deterioration of the family.”
On the debate stage, that this was evidence of Biden’s opposition to working).
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