Tag: Kevin Milligan

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

Posted by on in 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…

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Daycare Leads to Increased Crime: Peer-Reviewed Research

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Quebec

Peer-reviewed research contradicts daycare proponents and governments' claims that daycare benefits children and society: Quebec daycare system has led to higher youth crime August 2019 - peer-reviewed empirical research - by Drs. Michael Baker (U of T), Jonathan Gruber (MIT),…

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Top Economist Daycare Researcher Advising Prime Minister May Counter Daycare Lobby Disinformation

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UBC economics professor,  Dr Kevin Milligan is now a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister's Privy Council Office until the end of 2020 on the economic recovery from COVID.June 15, 2020 - blog post by UBC economist Kevin Milligan  -…

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Sept 7, 2010 Globe and Mail article—Full-day kindergarten in Ontario gets failing grade

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

Sept 7, 2010 Globe and Mail article—Full-day kindergarten in Ontario gets failing grade (. The article includes comments from Kate Tennier, Kindergarten Credit co-ordinator, and Dr Kevin Milligan, UBC economist.