Costs & costs-benefit analysis

Video: What Benefits Children’s Development? What The Top Economist James Heckman Really Says.

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 19, 2023in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Attachment, Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Children's Well-Being, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Parents’ and Children’s Rights, Policy with promise, Quality & staff-child ratios, Welfare reform, workfare, McJobs, Women & Work

February 2021. Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute - (youtube video): Interview with Nobel Laureate economist Dr James Heckman - "The Role of Families in Human Flourishing" Original article: February 2021. Katharine B. Stevens. American Enterprise Institute - (article): The…

Fund The Child, Not System Spaces

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 14, 2021in 2021 Daycare Budget, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Misc.

https://twitter.com/kidsfirstcanada/status/1392587204334034946?s=20

2021 Federal Budget: $30 Billion More Over 6 yrs For Non-Parental Institutional Child Care – Government Attack On the Right of Children, Women, Parents

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 8, 2021May 8, 2021in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

The top priority in the April 2021 federal budget was more institutional child care and coercing all mothers into full time jobs. On top of additional massive funding, $30 billion more over 6 years was offered including a much expanded…

Media release: BC parties’ daycare promises ignore majority of families, miss opportunity to earn votes

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 16, 2020in Children's Well-Being, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Enrollment statistics, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Vacancy rates, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA http://www.kidsfirstcanada.org info@kidsfirstcanada.org Media release: BC parties’ daycare promises ignore majority of families, miss opportunity to earn votes Burnaby, BC - October 15, 2020 - BC’s political parties have missed the opportunity to earn votes…

Daycare Subsidies: Aggregate Info From The BC Government

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 8, 2020October 8, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Enrollment statistics, Power imbalance between parents & state

Daycare gets money even when kids are not there Get up to $4500 Cash Just to Apply Apply to Open a Daycare (plus other subsidies) Get Emergency Cash to Fix or Move Daycare Centres but not Children’s Homes Milking The…

Daycare gets money even when kids are not there

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 6, 2020October 6, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Enrollment statistics, Misc., Vacancy rates

BC Government Counts Daycare Vacancies; subsidies do not change with children's attendance:October 2020 - BC Government - (web) "Monthly Enrollment Reporting" (for daycare)KF reference copy of webpage retrieved Oct. 6, 2020 (PDF): “Monthly Enrollment Reporting “Funding payments are based on…

Get up to $4500 Cash Just to Apply to Open a Daycare (plus other subsidies)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 6, 2020November 14, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

October 2020. BC Government - (web): "Start up grants for becoming a licensed child care facility"KF reference copy of webpage retrieved Oct. 6, 2020 (PDF)These are one-time grants that can provide up to $4,000 for applicants to become Licensed Family…

Milking The Daycare Cash Cow in BC

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 6, 2020October 6, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

MORE DAYCARE SUBSIDIES: MILLIONS TO MAKE DAYCARE 'SPACES' EVEN IF THEY ARE VACANTOctober 2020 - BC subsidies to make more daycare spaces: Maximum Provincial Funding Amounts KF reference copies of webpage retrieved Oct. 6, 2020 (PDF):eligibilitymaximum provincial funding amounts Per…

MORE DAYCARE SUBSIDIES: BC basic daily subsidy to daycare centres regardless of parents’ income

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 6, 2020October 6, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

October 2020 - MORE DAYCARE SUBSIDIES: BC basic daily subsidy to daycare centres regardless of parents' income: Child Care Operating Funding - Base Funding KF reference copies of webpage retrieved Oct. 6, 2020 (PDF): group child care ratesfamily child care…

Quebec Daycare System Hurts 72% of Families Financially

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 6, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quebec

January 2000. Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP). (research paper published by Quebec economists) Robert Baril, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan -"Quebec Family Policy: Impact and Options" QUOTE FROM SUMMARY: "It would be anticipated that a policy change of…

Response and Commentary on throne speech proposal for more funding to Non-Parental Child Care

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 26, 2020September 29, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Enrollment statistics, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

Commentary Sept 24. Helen Ward - (PDF): "Commentary on the speech from the throne" By Helen Ward (Below is an excerpt from the latest Speech from the Throne by the federal government under the LiberalParty of Canada with Prime Minister…

Swedish daycare is VERY costly at $27,000/yr/child age 1-5 and very undemocratic. (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 26, 2019June 26, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Quality & staff-child ratios, Sweden

Swedish response to Globe and Mail article praising Swedish daycare system (broken link): Swedish daycare is VERY costly at $27,000/yr/child age 1-5 and very undemocratic. TAXES to pay for it are so high that almost no parents cannot afford to…

BC Government ‘Universal’ Daycare Prototype Increases Discrimination Vs. Children &Parents

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 31, 2019May 22, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

$0 per child in parental child care$24,000++ per 'space' for non-parental 'prototype' daycareparents not considered to be child care workersgovernment admits inadequate quality daycare will take $100++million to improve November 9, 2018. B.C. Ministry of Children and Family - news…

Misaligned Budget

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 2, 2017May 21, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

March 27, 2017. Helen Ward. National Post - op-ed: "Helen Ward: The new Liberal budget will send money for 'children' right to the wealthy and the bureaucrats" (Note: this was written in response to the 2017 budget)

Exploiting women through childcare

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 15, 2016May 20, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Aug 10, 2016: Financial Post article, Exploiting women through childcare. The Federal government is considering a $500M "child care" subsidy program in order to increase mothers' employment. Is this what women want? Does cheap daycare increase mothers' labour force participation?