The post-pandemic future: Affordable child care will save the economy
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For decades, women have told us how necessary child care is for their ability to work. Before the pandemic, nine per cent of parents with small children had to change their work schedule because they didn’t...
Five things the federal government can do to support women and economic growth
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Research consistently showed that women in the workforce, whether they be employees, business-owners or entrepreneurs, have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Canadian Chamber’s...
Study: COVID-19 associated with widening unemployment gap between Canadian mothers and fathers
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Everyone’s life has been affected by COVID-19 in one way or another, yet women seem to be disproportionately bearing the brunt when it comes to job losses.
Nothing 'off the table' as federal NDP calls for $2 billion infusion into child care
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wants Ottawa to ante up with an immediate $2-billion cash infusion to provinces to support child care and families during the economic restart.
And leveraging NDP support critical to...
Letter: Requests for access to City space for return to school plans
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Dear Ms. Jackson and Dr. Browne:Re: Requests for access to City space for return to school plans
Coronavirus prompts child-care providers to call it quits
With less money and more risk, waves of child-care providers call it quits
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Kirsten Hove and her mom have been taking care of kids in San Francisco for decades.
Hove’s mother opened a...
Canada's economic recovery depends on working moms
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Pandemic widened Boston’s child care gap
Out of 773 child care programs in Boston, only 578 have reopened so far.
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Boston may have lost up to 22 to 35 percent of its permanent child care capacity as a result of economic...
2020: The school year we made women choose between work & care
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This year’s back to school season is like nothing parents have seen before — for mothers especially. As school districts across the country announce decisions about school reopenings, ongoing uncertainty is...
Cheaper childcare could boost economy by $11b a year: Grattan Institute
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Working mums could add $150,000 more to their lifetime earnings if the federal government subsidised the cost of childcare more, with new research promising an $11 billion-a-year boost to the economic recovery...
