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Daycare is a tough electoral sell, but kids are about more than politics
There are waiting lists for child care across the country, and costs if you do get in are among the highest in the developed world: $925 a month in Ontario, $1,200 in Vancouver, but just $140 in subsidized Quebec… Framed solely as an election issue, it’s only a winner for the segment of the population that currently has drooling small people clamped to its sides. But the droolers have a way of growing up, being useful to society and becoming voters themselves. Look at it that way, and it’s a winner.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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7 perfectly sensible reasons why child care is good for the economy
Child care is back in the news with two competition visions: give parents a monthly cheque of $100 to help cover monthly child care bills that can top $1,000 or build a real national $15-a-day child care program. So for those of you who need a good, hard dollars and cents explanation about why a real child care program is worthwhile, here are seven perfectly sensible reasons why the investment is good for the economy.
Tags: child care, economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Mulcair’s childcare plan addresses a pressing need
While nearly three-quarters of Canadian mothers with children age 5 or younger have some kind of job, less than a quarter of children in that age group have access to regulated care… Studies suggest that for every $1 invested in making sure children get a good start in life governments ultimately get back $1.50 or more. If so, Mulcair’s investment would pay for itself.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Why cities should deliver a national day care program
A national program would create jobs, leave parents free to work or upgrade their skills, provide additional support for new Canadians, single parents and simultaneously reduce both poverty levels and financial precariousness (the rate of poverty in one income household is 21 per cent but drops to 4 per cent for two income households)… Two of our three national parties recognize this… A collective disbelief in a national childcare program actually happening has caused Canadians to instead just settle for a wholly inadequate status quo.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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NDP thinks big with national daycare plan
… what’s spent on government-sponsored child care should be offset by revenue gained by individuals and governments… The Conservative policy is expensive but politically effective – after all, who doesn’t like receiving a cheque in the mail? But it’s not a child-care policy, since it fails to offset more than a fraction of the costs of child-raising, let alone daycare… As child-care policy, it’s a joke, but as politics, it’s a winner… A thicket of problems awaits any federal government that tries what the NDP is proposing. But give the party credit…
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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Inequality Explained
Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, presents a keynote address to the UN Economic and Financial Committee ( Second Committee) as webcast live at < http://webtv.un.org/search/inequality-and-development-janet-gornick-–-keynote-address-second-committee-2nd-meeting-69th-general-assembly/3826056194001?term=Janet%20Gornick >.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Ontario to tackle gender wage gap
Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn has been ordered to develop a strategy to close the 31.5 per cent wage gap between men and women in the province… According to the latest available data, women earned an average of $33,600 in 2011 while men earned $49,000. Equal pay advocates, who have been calling for a provincial strategy similar to Ontario’s anti-poverty and accessibility plans, are thrilled Wynne has highlighted the issue as a government priority.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Politics is sexist, but not in the ways we’ve been talking about
Current conversations about sexism tend to be far more trivial than structural… This frustratingly narrow focus has drawn attention from the more important and thorny contemporary women’s issues: a persistent wage gap, unenforceable board quotas, choice in reproductive health, provision of affordable child care, and parental-leave benefits… This limited definition of what sexism is speaks volumes about the lack of a satisfying feminist lens for evaluating policy proposals.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Drop income splitting and hike the deduction for childcare
Parents can already deduct $7,000 for daycare, babysitting or camp costs for children aged under 7 and $4,000 for kids aged under 17. Pushing that deduction limit to $10,000 would help every parent – including single parents. If the government allowed a working parent to pay their stay-at-home partner and claim the deduction, it would level the playing field for everybody.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Parliament finally debates slain aboriginal women
… aboriginal women don’t have the same rights as other Canadian women… They do not have the right to security of the person, guaranteed in the Canadian Constitution… They do not have the right to attend safe, properly heated schools with well-trained teachers, Internet access and enough textbooks… They do not have the right to choose a family doctor… They do not have the right to potable drinking water in all communities… They do not have the right to raise healthy, secure children…
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, women
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