US EditionChild-Care Affordability Is Coming at the Expense of Equity — and It’s Time Governments Acted
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States are quietly cutting child care funding — and families are out of options
For the past year, families in need of child care assistance in Indiana have been sitting on a waitlist that has ballooned from 3,000 to 30,000 kids. It’s still climbing — and no one is coming off of it. Emily Pike, the executive director of New Hope For Families in Bloomington, which cares for children experiencing homelessness, […] The post States are quietly cutting child care funding — and families are out of options appeared first on The B…
Child-care affordability is coming at the expense of equity — and it’s time governments acted
Five years into Canada’s $10-a-day child care plan, affordability has improved dramatically for families fortunate enough to have a space. However, the families who need care the most are being left behind. Both the auditor general of Canada and the auditor general of Ontario have warned that the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) program, while successful in lowering fees, is failing to meet its other commitments — inclusion, qu…
More than half of the respondents (52 percent) of a Chamber of Labour survey gave childcare and/or family care as the main reason for part-time employment. The survey is not representative, about 3,300 people filled out the online questionnaire completely. Due to the high number of participants, one can recognize "basic statements and trends", according to the head of the AK Vienna Department of Social Policy, Sybille Pirklbauer, at a press conf…
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