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Article: Clinton to Back Adoption Tax Credit // He Also Will Support Interracial Placement
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 6, 1996
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WASHINGTON President Clinton will endorse Republican legislation
to allow most families who adopt to claim a $5,000 tax credit and
penalize states whose adoption agencies delay placement of a child to
find a family of the same race, White House sources said Sunday.
The president will embrace provisions that have traditionally
been in the Republican domain. The adoption tax credit was part of
House Republicans' Contract With America, and Republicans have been
most vocal in opposing racial matching in adoption placements.
"Promoting adoption is one of the most important things we can
do to strengthen American families and give more children what every
child in America deserves - loving ...