#ChildCare

every single person should be able choose when & if they want to have a family, when & if they want to work while having that family, & have access
Read more
Universal childcare is a policy that tells stay-at-home parents that they are worthless to society. Just give parents money. Bernie Sanders's free childcare plan would cost $150 billion per year.
Read more
The UK Government has issued new guidance: "Working safely during coronavirus (COVID-19)"It explicitly instructs employers to dissuade workers from using PPE, no matter the setting, claiming it's "not beneficial" to
Read more
the exemption to local restrictions for 'informal caring arrangements' is a good thing - the total prohibition on sharing care outside households in lockdown 1 (for most, outside nuclear families)
Read more
The CDC published propaganda yesterday pushing that schools must to be opened for the greater good of the child. It repeats several times that Covid isn't as dangerous for children,
Read more
You may not meet with anyone else in a house even for childcare. Unless that childcare provider is registered cos registration gives you some sort of Covid immune superpower?Also, you
Read more
Thread. Stop getting all excited about free childcare. Home truths and truisms. My SO works in the industry at various levels - planning, educating, training, and caring.1. ONLY the Coronavirus
Read more
Frustrated that the (huge) cost of childcare and the career sacrifices of having a small child is still seen as a “woman’s issue”. Where are the fathers in this? Is
Read more
You can’t think about the labor market today (or any day really) without thinking about childcare. A thread: It’s important to know that even before the pandemic, more than half
Read more
hello @rebeccakschulz, my main criticism of you is your complete denial of economic fact:every $1 invested in early childhood education returns $6 to $7 back to the economy.in absolutely *every
Read more
Yes, these trends were happening but now they’ve been accelerated.Moreover, given that Zoom is up 20X while sports, movie theaters, K12, college attendance are down ~100% — it’s not going
Read more
As ever, you have to assume people act in good faith. The Cummings story is no different. His was a very human reaction. Worrying about whether he and his wife
Read more
No idea what Dominic Cummings will say later but I hope it is a ‘mea culpa when we realised we were both likely to be ill we panicked about childcare’.
Read more
1/ Would you work for nothing? Nope? Thought so. Could this be why so many Australian mums work part-time? Tax, welfare and childcare costs mean that full time work for
Read more
New results from a @CSCCEUCB survey of over 2000 #ECE programs in CA show that many won’t survive w/o financial relief. Read "California Child Care at the Brink": https://cscce.berkeley.edu/california-child-care-at-the-brink-cov
Read more
GroenLinks (Green party) proposes scrapping childcare subsidy for 3 days free childcare. Scrapping the subsidy? Good idea. 3 days of free childcare? NOT a viable solution. Why not? 1) The
Read more