NEF and IPPR have made specific proposals for credit guidance and strategic quantitative easing.
Her main campaign plank is a proposal for tax credits for companies that promise to hire more workers.
He also reiterated his proposal for tax credits to help people buy health insurance, a favorite of many conservatives.
He discussed his own proposal for tax credits for day care and once again criticized Mr. Bush's plan for a tax cut worth $1.3 trillion over 10 years.
Gov. George W. Bush, the likely Republican nominee for president, has also begun to address the issue, with a proposal for tax credits to help people buy insurance.
One new item in the Clinton package was a proposal for a tax credit to accelerate the development of vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS.
So, too, Mr. Bush's proposal for a tax credit of up to $2,000 a family to help working people with low or moderate incomes buy health insurance is very close to proposals pushed by Representative Dick Armey, the House Majority Leader from Texas, and Senator Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee.
"We're interested in the proposal for a universal credit and I've said, in principle, of course I support a simpler benefits system and making it easier for people to make the transition from benefits and into work.
"We're interested in the proposal for a universal credit and I've said, in principle, of course I support a simpler benefits system and making it easier for people to make the transition from benefits and into work," he told the BBC on Tuesday.
Following Wednesday night's presidential debate both the Republican nominee and his running mate have taken to deriding Obama's proposal for refundable tax credits as something akin to "welfare" or a "government giveaway".
