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Budget 2021 analysis: Does it deliver?
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
About two-thirds of the spending is short-term, related to COVID-19 and the final third carries over to the third year. The programs that extend to the long-term are child care (for which this budget is transformative), long-term care, some business supports and some environmental measures (around clean fuel and climate adaptation)… a historically large budget, but it’s within Canada’s ability to both deal with the impact of a global pandemic and to plant the seeds for a public-led recovery.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, Seniors, tax, women, youth
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How the Canada Child Benefit is Performing
Friday, April 9th, 2021
The CCB had a larger effect than the enhanced UCCB, primarily because the amounts available to lower income families are greater, but both reduced poverty. Interestingly, neither had visible labour supply effects for our sample population, despite concerns that enhancing benefits would discourage work. Our work provides further evidence of the efficacy of these types of targeted cash transfers as an effective tool for redistribution and poverty reduction.
Tags: budget, child care, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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Childcare Reform Key to Post-Covid Economic Recovery
Sunday, April 4th, 2021
Among a suite of reforms at the federal and provincial levels, the authors recommend: The existing Child Care Expense Deduction (CCED), a regressive tax deduction that reinforces patriarchal gender roles for parents, be replaced with a more generous, progressive and more frequently paid refundable tax credit… Provinces… increase childcare spaces… a single, dedicated and permanent [federal] transfer to provinces.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, tax
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Measured progress: A new National Scorecard provides the framework for smart and inclusive long-term growth for Canada
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
Century Initiative’s inaugural 2021 National Scorecard identified the following key issues as focus areas… productivity… spending on research and development… household debt… public spending on training… availability of childcare… child & youth well-being… public spending related to children & families… quality of broadband internet… environmental sustainability… By measuring our progress, we can manage it
Tags: child care, economy, homelessness, immigration, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Childcare Reform Key to Post-Covid Economic Recovery
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
“We need immediate attention and incremental but aggressive reforms to get this right, for women, for families and for Canada as we emerge from the pandemic.” … the authors recommend… a more generous, progressive and more frequently paid refundable tax credit… increasing operating and/or capital grants for licensed providers… new federal dollars for childcare be consolidated into a single, dedicated and permanent transfer to provinces.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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Finally, everyone agrees that Canada needs better child care. But what should it look like?
Sunday, March 28th, 2021
High-quality child care gives children an early, productive start on their educations and a more certain path to prosperous careers… It’s an equalizer … It increases the labour force participation of women by giving mothers more certain options to go to work… Tax incentives or fee limits to help families pay the child-care bills are a moot point if there aren’t enough spaces to go around.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, women
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The Ford government’s second pandemic budget is another missed opportunity
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
The budget unveils plans to “establish a task force to advise the government on how to address the unique and disproportionate economic barriers women face.” It’s ridiculous — the government already knows what to do. It should be making meaningful changes for women and other vulnerable workers now, not delaying action with a task force that will repeat what has been said before.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Health, ideology, participation, rights
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Youth ‘aging out’ of care deserve better. The Ford government needs to deliver real reform
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Some 12,000 children and youth live in foster homes and group homes in Ontario. About 2,000 of them turn 18 every year at which point they are usually forced to move out of their foster or group home to live independently, whether they’re ready or not. (There is financial assistance and other supports beyond 18 for some youth but it’s not universal and it’s not enough.)
Tags: child care, ideology, youth
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From Keynesian Consensus to Neo-Liberalism to the Green New Deal: 75 years of income inequality in Canada
Friday, March 12th, 2021
… slowing growth and the concentration of income gains at the top produced widening income gaps, increasing discontent and political instability—even before COVID-19 hit. In the post-COVID-19 era, the Green New Deal emphasizes social and environmental sustainability, and is reflective of the economic policy changes that likely lie ahead.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, globalization, Health, ideology, participation, standard of living
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It’s time to move ahead on a national child-care system
Sunday, February 21st, 2021
… new money for child care must support programs. That is the only way Ottawa will be able to lower parent fees and raise wages, which in turn, will attract and retain well-trained staff who are the foundation of high-quality child care. That should be the starting point as Ottawa negotiates bilateral funding agreements with provinces and territories… Provinces that are ready to sign-on should get started immediately. But under no circumstances should Ottawa ink funding deals with provinces that don’t embrace this new federal vision.
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