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Liberals promise child-care revival
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Jan. 3,2011
Federal Liberals are vowing to revive the national child-care program that Prime Minister Stephen Harper scrapped exactly five years ago this week… Dryden said that the $100 payments don’t even come close to meeting the child-care costs of the average Canadian family, which he put at roughly $8,000 a year… Though the party has unveiled a $1-billion program to help families caring for sick and elderly relatives – the so-called Family Care proposal – all the Liberals’ promises in the realm of education are being held back for announcement during a campaign.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, women
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Child development not linked to length of parental leave, government argues
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Jan. 28, 2011
…the question of whether longer parental leaves have tangible advantages for children is the subject of great debate among sociologists and economists… Part of the reason for the lack of consensus is that teasing out the effects of parental time off on children’s well-being involves evaluating a host of interconnected variables, including infant health, the quality of child care, parenting styles, work force opportunities, income, gender equality and families’ support systems.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Ignatieff pitches $1-billion family care plan
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
January 28, 2011
a much more fruitful alternative to the “fighter jets, jails and corporate tax cuts” proffered by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper…. Ignatieff wants to defray the costs of home care with a new, six-month family care employment-insurance benefit-vs. sixweeksof parental leave now available to some -in addition to a new family care benefit of up to $1,350 a year, tax-free. That $1 billion “is a gesture,” he said, to support family caregivers… an aging population -and the current piecemeal, fragmented system…
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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Harper government has done little for women
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
January 28, 2011
Women could have done with government help during the past five years. They continue to be penalized in the workplace for having children. They are under-represented in public office and increasingly frozen out of government appointments. The social safety net no longer offers as much safety as it once did. Women’s-rights groups, including those representing missing native women, are struggling as their state subsidies are cut.
Tags: ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Prisons grapple with increase in mentally ill female inmates
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Jan. 27, 2011
Across the country, prisons are grappling with the problem of a sharp increase in mentally impaired inmates. But the issue is particularly acute with women. Female offenders are twice as likely as their male counterparts to be diagnosed with a mental-health condition when they’re admitted to prison, according to a recent report by the federal Correctional Investigator. Moreover, the number of women admitted to penitentiaries with mental problems doubled from 1997 to 2009… but the needs of the mentally ill are playing a small role in federal expansion plans.
Tags: corrections, mental Health, women
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The forgotten caregivers of pension reform
Monday, January 10th, 2011
Jan. 10, 2011
Millions of workers − primarily women − struggle with balancing their caregiving responsibilities and employment demands… [Many] reduce their working hours or leave their jobs altogether for a period of time to care for infirm parents. Fortunately, there is a promising remedy… The current definition of caregiving in the CPP can be stretched to include the care of persons with serious illness or severe disability… Other countries, including Australia, Britain, Germany, Norway and Finland, stave off income insecurity by providing some form of caregiver pension.
Tags: disabilities, Health, pensions, standard of living, women
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Child support too low a priority
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
Dec 11 2010
Ontario’s Auditor General Jim McCarter has found that the Family Responsibility Office works actively on less than one-quarter of its total cases each year. Even if a person is lucky enough to have her case make it to the top of the pile, there is no guarantee she will get timely help. The office waits four months after a case goes into arrears before it even starts enforcement action. Remarkably, more than 80 per cent of the calls to the FRO call centre never get answered.
Tags: child care, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Number of seniors living in poverty soars nearly 25%
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
Nov. 25, 2010
The number of seniors living in poverty spiked at the beginning of the financial meltdown, reversing a decades-long trend and threatening one of Canada’s most important social policy successes. The number of seniors living below the low-income cutoff, Statistics Canada’s basic measure of poverty, jumped nearly 25 per cent between 2007 and 2008, to 250,000 from 204,000, according to figures released on Wednesday by Campaign 2000… Economists say women make up as much as 80 per cent of the increase in seniors poverty.
Tags: pensions, poverty, standard of living, women
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Unpaid work not feminist issue
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
Nov 16 2010
… unpaid work is not a feminist issue and needs to be brought out of that particular closet. On the home front, there’s value in empowering such work. If it releases an intelligent woman for work, allows a man to work from home as part of the solution to traffic woes, helps people reduce health costs by caring for needy family members at home, then it can pay back… Perhaps governments would be more willing to pursue these options if economic benefits were emphasized instead of pounding feminist drums. Liberals may like it but Conservatives march to the beat of economics, so change drums!
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living, women
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Why women need to save more than men for retirement
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Nov. 12, 2010
During their working lives, women face a much larger savings challenge than men because they typically earn less – and then have to stretch their incomes out over a longer life-span when they retire. “Women live longer and they marry people who are older than they are. Add those two together and that, in itself, will cost you 20- to 25-per-cent more,” says York University’s Moshe Milevsky… they’ve earned less than the average male… and… have a longer expected life, so [they] have to save proportionally more…
Tags: pensions, poverty, standard of living, women
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