Federal election 2019: Labor's childcare wages pledge risks being 'a handout to big business'
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Labor's election promise to boost childcare workers' wages using taxpayer funds risks being a "handout to big business", according to a respected tax economist, as small childcare operators complain the policy...
HuffPost Her Stories: The social cost of motherhood in Brazil
Plus: 70 women on what it's like to be cyberflashed
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Dear reader,
Brazil is facing a child care crisis – and, unsurprisingly, it’s working mothers who are bearing the brunt of it,...
Quebec announces $3 million for home-based daycares
Family Minister Mathieu Lacombe said although the government is hoping to put in place a pre-kindergarten program for four-year-olds, it also wants to"leave the choice up to parents"
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2020's woman candidates are actually prioritizing paid leave, child care, and equal pay
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So-called women's issues affect everyone. It just took some women presidential candidates to make that clear.
Democratic women have entered the 2020 race in record numbers, bringing paid family leave, pay...
Early childhood education in Iran: Progress and emerging challenges
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Exploring leave policy preferences: A comparison of Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States
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Child care and child outcomes: A comparison across European countries
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Using data from OECD’s PISA, Eurostat and World Bank’s WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are affected by macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education...
Changing lives in our lifetime
Global Childhood Report 2019
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Children born today have a better chance than at any time in history to grow up healthy, educated and protected, with the...
City loses $620,000 for licensed childcare in PC cuts; more kids for less staff expected
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More than $620,000 in funding has been lost to the City of Kawartha Lakes for licensed childcare spaces due to cuts from the provincial PC government.
Within that pot, nearly $258,000 was for general allocation...
Misspeaking childcare: The Ford government’s evidence vacuum
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*This blog went to press as Premier Ford announced that he was reversing retroactive cuts to municipalities for childcare for 2019 but confirming that cuts in the future will continue.
