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Liberal budget’s child-care funding commendable, but won’t help families any time soon
The first four years amount to about half a billion dollars each to be added to an annual system which, even in its current woeful state, costs provinces $4.2-billion… Child-care experts estimate that it would actually cost closer to $12-billion a year – from all governments – to run a system which, to quote Ottawa’s current buzzwords, would be “accessible, affordable and flexible.” … “The resources will have the most impact if we start with those who are most vulnerable.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, women
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Parents won’t have social assistance slashed if kids placed in temporary care
The policy change by the Ministry of Community and Social Services lets these parents keep their full benefits until a court decides whether their children will be kept permanently in care. The benefits will only get reduced if the children are made Crown wards. The ministry will also reinstate full benefits to parents whose children are currently in temporary care…
Tags: child care, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, youth
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Liberals look to target child-care funding to ‘vulnerable’ families
the Liberals want to target the promised funds to single parent households, or children with mental health issues and not only at low-income families. Mathieu Filion said the government wants to help the “most vulnerable in our society,” believing the spending could have a positive influence these children later in life.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, poverty
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The ‘inverted justice’ of Canada’s family courts and how they got this way
… in the 1980s and ’90s, there was a perfect storm of change. Legal feminism was increasingly informed by radical feminism; divorce came to be seen as a source of women’s poverty; family law had blossomed as a proper branch of practice; the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms “opened the door to greater legal and judicial participation in the formation of social policy” … In that climate emerged a social policy aimed at reducing poverty by focusing on private responsibility.
Tags: child care, ideology, mental Health, poverty, privatization, rights, women, youth
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$5B housing pledge aims to help most vulnerable National Housing
… the focus would be on supporting the most vulnerable Canadians, which in addition to people struggling with mental health, addictions and domestic abuse also includes seniors, persons with disabilities and veterans… The national strategy… will also include $3 billion dedicated towards strengthening the relationship between provinces and territories, targeted funding for northern communities and Indigenous communities… and increased funding to prevent and reduce homelessness.
Tags: budget, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
… a wide body of sociological research shows how tied up work is with a sense of purpose and identity… Sociology also offers important lessons about poverty that economics alone does not… It’s relatively clear how a change in tax policy or an adjustment to interest rates can make the economy grow faster or slower. It’s less obvious what, if anything, government can do to change forces that are driven by the human psyche.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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Ontario’s stolen children still getting a raw deal as province deals with Motherisk scandal
It’s pretty tough to overstate the gravity of what went on in this province’s children’s aid societies, in its courtrooms, and at the lucrative Motherisk lab at Sick Kids Hospital, since closed… The government stole your kid under false pretences; you’re grief-stricken, furious; but maybe your kid is in a wealthier or more stable environment than you can offer. It’s an impossible position that no one should ever be in.
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, rights, youth
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The new Liberal budget will send money for ‘children’ right to the wealthy and the bureaucrats
Currently only about 15 per cent of Canadian children 0-5 are in daycare centres. Statistics Canada reports that higher-income families are more likely to use this arrangement. Taxpayers are funding higher-income families with huge subsidies for institutional child care at the expense of lower income families — including single parents — who prioritize parental child care… To efficiently fund child care we should fund children, not spaces and their massive related system costs. We could do this by increasing the federal government’s child benefit.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, poverty, tax, women
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