was perusing secular sleepaway camps for next summer and OMG who can possibly afford these????
my partner and I both have decent jobs that require advanced degrees and our combined take-home pay is less, week-for-week, than the cost of sleepaway camp.
If I were an investigative reporter in Alberta, I'd start digging into possible connections between the Danielle Smith regime and the Alberta daycare owners who've shuttered their businesses in a muhhh freeedum (tantrum) protest of $10 childcare. #DanielleSmith#cdnpoli#childcare
Investing in #childcare is a path to attracting and retaining young #farmers and their families, and a strategy for growing and retaining the rural workforce. As one Ohio farmer put it: “If America wants farmers, farm families need help with child care.”
For the first time in history, the 2 largest U.S. farm organizations have included child care in their policy priorities for the 2023 federal farm bill.
This is big, and it’s an important much-needed investment.
Hey #Sociology and #religious scholars people, can anyone tell me why it is that religious groups are often so good at organizing themselves to share #childcare responsibilities but secular groups seem super bad at it?
If having #children is a belief in the future then ONS data showing the slow decline in 'total fertility' in #England & #Wales has now dropped to 1.49 children... well below the 2.1 replacement rate, is notable!.
Apart from economic issues (future #workforce etc.), this suggests two things:
the costs of having children is becoming prohibitive (from #childcare to #housing costs), and;
looking at their precarious lives prospective parents are deciding no to inflict this on the as yet unborn!
#POTUS Biden on Mon called for major new spending initiatives to lower costs for #healthcare, #ChildCare & #housing & enough new taxes on the wealthy & major corporations to pay for those proposals & also shave $3 trillion off the #NationalDebt over the next decade.
In an interview with #RadioCanada, #Poilievre was noncommittal on whether #ChildCare, #DentalCare and #pharmacare would be dismantled by a government led by him — but he raised questions about the programs' effectiveness.
No one said that having kids would be cheap. But should preschool cost a third of your income?
The screams you’re hearing are coming from UK parents, who are beginning to organise around the outrageously high costs of taking care of young children.
As Bloomberg reporter Olivia Konotey-Ahulu explores in her article today, England is one of the most expensive places in the world to take care of young children, relative to income.
#Utah Bills Itself as “Family-Friendly” Even as Lawmakers Have Long Neglected Child Care
Federal relief had improved access to #ChildCare. But when funding expired, the state rejected proposals to replace it. Some advocates say the historical influence of the #LDS church has added to the resistance.
San Francisco Mayor Breed is proposing to reduce the tax liability of sublessors of commercial real estate by exempting them from paying the Commercial Rent Tax for Child Care and Early Education. They currently pay $17 million annually.
This tax, passed by voters in 2018, funds early childhood care and education programs (85%) and the General Fund (15%).
The proposal would literally reduce revenues available for early childhood care in exchange for a very theoretical increase in sub-leasing.
Taking money from babies and children to give to corporations. Incredible.
How can modern society and workplaces help people be the parents they need to be? Something is rotten in a society that forces both parents to work full-time while having young kids getting constantly sick in daycare. Aside from that, children need attention from parents who are not exhausted. #childcare
It’s a day to celebrate mothers, but motherhood is increasingly difficult in America. The Biden admin has fought for paid leave, affordable childcare…, but Republicans have thwarted their efforts: For families without paid leave, babies “are going to day care when they are two weeks old.”
This book offers an exploration of #work-life balance, focusing on #parents, #academics, the self-employed, and #migrants. It examines self-care, #childcare, and informal care dynamics.
Working out #childcare for the summer holidays is always fun. And this year we have a primary school leaver so the usual childcare is no longer offered. 🤯
A few years old but a very neat piece from evolutionary #anthropologist Karen #Kramer. How do children learn best? Packed into same-age classrooms listening to an adult?
'...work among with the Pumé of Venezuela and the Maya living in the Yucatan Peninsula—resoundingly suggests that they learn from one another.'
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'IN THE CHILD-populous world of hunter-gatherers, little separates the spheres of adults and children. The places they work, play, relax, and sleep are not segregated. Privacy, alone time, and adult-only spaces are concepts unknown to the Pumé, for example. They live in open-walled structures that children freely run in and out of without requesting entry. Pumé children also aren’t restricted from what might be considered adult spaces and activities, such as menstrual huts (special structures where women in many traditional societies go for the few days a month when they menstruate), watching births, being around the dying, or participating in all-night social dances, called tohé, where the band joins together to sing, conduct healings, and tell stories.'