Canadian Social Research Newsletter
August 7, 2005
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Impact of the National Child Benefit on the Incomes of Families with Children: A Simulation Analysis
1. Impact
of the National Child Benefit on the Incomes of Families with Children: A Simulation
Analysis - August 4 |
Reports
confirm that the National Child Benefit contributes to reducing child poverty
August
4, 2005
"OTTAWA — Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers Responsible
for Social Services today affirmed that the National Child Benefit contributes
to reducing child poverty in Canada. This is supported by an analysis they released
today titled Impact of the National Child Benefit on the Incomes of Families
with Children: A Simulation Analysis. It is also supported by two recently
released reports: National Child Benefit Progress Report: 2003 released
on April 6, 2005 and Evaluation of the National Child Benefit Initiative:
Synthesis Report released on June 6, 2005. (...) Technical evaluation
reports are available upon request from Social Development Canada."
Complete report + annexes:
Impact
of the National Child Benefit on the Incomes of Families with Children: A Simulation
Analysis
Annex 1: Impact
of the National Child Benefit on the Incomes of Families with Children: Using
Post-Tax Low-Income Measure (LIM)
Annex 2: Impact
of the National Child Benefit on the Incomes of Families with Children: Using
Market Basket Measure
Related links to government content:
National
Child Benefit Progress Report: 2003 - April 2005
Evaluation
of the National Child Benefit Initiative: Synthesis Report - February
2005
Source:
The
National Child Benefit Website
[Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers
Responsible for Social Services]
Related links to non-government content:
Challenge
to the Clawback of the National Child Benefit Supplement
December 10,
2004
"Today the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC), the Centre for
Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA) and the Charter Committee on Poverty Issues
(CCPI), have formally launched a legal challenge to the clawback of the National
Child Benefit Supplement from families on social assistance."
Source:
Ontario
Project for Inter-Clinic
Community Organizing (OPICCO)
Canadian
Social Research Links Caselaw Links ===> start at the top of this page
for links to resources that include insights from Carol Goar and Richard Shillington,
as well as one of the rare editorial comments you'll find on the Canadian Social
Research Links website --- concerning my fears for single childless people on welfare
and for future funding for the programs that depend on the clawback for their
financial lifeblood.
Income
Security Advocacy Centre
Centre
for Equality Rights in Accommodation
Charter
Committee on Poverty Issues
- Go to the
Children, Families and Youth Links (Government) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chnbkmrk.htm
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Go to the Case Law / Court Decisions / Inquests page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/caselaw.htm
2. Labour
Force Survey, July 2005 - August 5 |
What's New from The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
August
5, 2005
Labour
Force Survey, July 2005
Employment was unchanged in July following
an increase of 79,000 during the previous three months. Job gains total 110,000
(+0.7%) so far in 2005, slightly less than the 143,000 (+0.9%) over the same period
a year ago. In July, the unemployment rate edged up 0.1 percentage points to 6.8%,
still among the lowest in almost three decades.
- Go to the Federal Government Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
3. Ontario
Expands Best Start for
Children Initiative (child
care) - July 28 |
McGuinty
Government Expands Best Start Plan For Children
Province Creates Approximately
25,000 New Child Care Spaces Easing The Financial Burden On Municipalities
News
Release
July 28, 2005
"TORONTO — The McGuinty government is improving
access to high quality, convenient child care for thousands of families by delivering
an unprecedented investment in early child development while relieving municipalities
of their share of the cost of operating new child care spaces, Children and Youth
Services Minister Mary Anne Chambers announced today."
Ontario's Best Start Plan to Expand Early Learning and Child Care - Backgrounder
Allocation of New Federal Funds to Municipalities, over Three Years, by March 31, 2008 (PDF file - 84K, 3 pages)
Ontario's Best Start Plan for Early Learning and Child Care Provincial Allocations, over Three Years, by March 31, 2008 (PDF file - 60K, 1 page)
Source:
Ministry
of Children and Youth Services
- Go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm
4. Manitoba's
Action Plan on Early Learning and Child Care - July 15, 2005 |
Moving
Forward on Early Learning and Child Care - Manitoba's Action Plan - Next Steps
July 15, 2005
- includes the full text
of the Agreement-in-Principle between the Government of Canada and the Government
of Manitoba as well as the joint Canada-Manitoba news release announcing the agreement
on April 29/05
Manitoba's
Action Plan - Next Steps (PDF file - 244K, 6 pages)
July 2005
Related Link:
- Go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm
5. A comprehensive
poverty reduction strategy in Newfoundland and Labrador - June 2005 |
Reducing
Poverty in Newfoundland and Labrador - Background Report and Workbook
(PDF file - 1.5MB, 44 pages)
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
June
2005
"In the 2005 Speech from the Throne, the Government of Newfoundland
and Labrador committed to refine and implement a comprehensive poverty reduction
strategy in collaboration with stakeholders both within and outside the government.
This document is designed to provide readers with background information on poverty
in the province, current initiatives being undertaken by the provincial government
and ideas for future action."
Selected content from the background
report:
Poverty and its Determinants - Profile of those Living in Poverty
- Low income in Newfoundland and Labrador - Incidence of Poverty - Rural and Urban
Poverty - Depth of Poverty - Persistence - Factors Influencing Poverty - The Provincial
Labour Market - Current Initiatives of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Income Support (welfare) Program - Career, Employment and Youth Services - Newfoundland
and Labrador Child Benefit (NLCB) - Low Income Tax Reduction Program - Initiatives
for Children and Families - Initiatives to Increase Women’s Economic Security
- Minimum Wage - Housing Supports - What Are other Jurisdictions Doing to Reduce
Poverty? (Quebec, rest of Canada, Ireland, Scotland) - Recommendations from Community-Based
Groups - Tax Relief - Asset Building Approaches - Finding the Right Policy Mix
- more...
+ workbook for citizens to complete and return to the provincial
government
Work
on the development of a provincial poverty strategy kicks into high gear
News
Release
June 24
Joan Burke, Minister of Human Resources, Labour and Employment,
announced that workshops will begin today on the development of a strategy to
reduce the level of poverty in Newfoundland and Labrador. The sessions, to be
held in approximately 10 communities over a two-week period, will engage those
working with community-based, labour and business organizations and is just one
of several activities planned to gather input on how best to reduce poverty in
the province."
Source:
Human
Resources, Labour and Employment
- Go to the Newfoundland and Labrador Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/nfbkmrk.htm
6. What's New
from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit - August 5 |
What's New - from
the Childcare Resource and Research Unit
(CRRU) - University of Toronto
Each week, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit disseminates its "e-mail news notifier", an e-mail message with a dozen or so links to new reports, studies and child care in the news (media articles) by the CRRU or another organization in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC). What you see below is content from the most recent issue of the notifier.
5-Aug-05
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WHAT’S
NEW
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Impact of the National Child Benefit on the incomes of families with children:
A simulation analysis
by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers
Responsible for Social Services
Report from the Federal, Provincial and Territorial
Ministers Responsible for Social Services "affirms that the National Child
Benefit contributes to reducing child poverty in Canada".
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Childcare bill consultation: Consultation on legislative proposals for the future
of childcare and early years provision in England
by Government
of Great Britain. Department of Education and Skills.
Paper from the British
government proposes to enshrine in law “parents' legitimate expectation of
accessible high quality childcare and early years provision as part of the modern
21st century welfare state”.
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Public attitudes towards education in Ontario 2004
by D.W. Livingstone
& D. Hart
Survey from the OISE/U of T charts current attitudes to education
in Ontario; finds strong public support for the greater integration of child care
and public kindergarten programs.
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Toronto 2005-2009 child care service plan
by City of Toronto. Department
of Children's Services.
Report from the City of Toronto describes progress
achieved to date, and provides a “next step in the City’s move towards
integrated planning and delivery of services for young children and families”.
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CHILD
CARE IN THE NEWS
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All my children [US]
New York Times, 31 Jul 05
The Lab School
at the University of Chicago was founded by John Dewey and is guided by his philosophy
that "the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth."
What if the children in Middle America - for that matter, children in the direst
straits - got a Lab School-quality education? That's the dream of a growing number
of people who are working to make preschool available to all.
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Low child care wages turn many off industry [AU]
Maitland Mercury,
29 Jul 05
Poor wages are discouraging people from pursuing a career in child
care, a Maitland worker believes. Her comments followed the release of an Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report this week that showed child care
workers were being paid almost half the wages of primary school teachers.
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Gillan still hopeful for child care deal this fall [CA-PE]
Charlottetown
Guardian, 29 Jul 05
With PEI no closer to signing a child care deal with the
federal government there is uncertainty if a program will be in place by September.
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Daycare waiting lists at crisis point: Hundreds of families forced to wait for
up to two years [CA-BC]
Vancouver Sun, 28 Jul 05
Waiting lists
at child care centres in BC’s Lower Mainland have reached crisis levels,
with hundreds of families waiting up to two years for a chance to place pre-school
children.
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Child care places to be made available for all working parents [GB]
Times
of London, 15 Jul 05
Under a consultation paper on child care published by
Beverley Hughes, the British Minister for Children, municipal governments will
be required by law to ensure that there are enough childcare places to meet the
needs of all working parents in their area.
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This message
was forwarded through the Childcare Resource
and Research Unit e-mail news
notifier. For information on the CRRU e-mail notifier,
including subscription
instructions , see http://www.childcarecanada.org
The
Childcare Resource and Research Unit (University of Toronto, Canada)
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Related Links:
What's
New? - Canadian, U.S. and international resources from Jan 2000 to the
present.
Child
Care in the News - media articles from January 2000 to the present
ISSUE
files - theme pages, each filled with contextual information and links
to further info
Links
to child care sites in Canada and elsewhere
CRRU
Publications - briefing notes, factsheets, occasional papers and other
publications
Also from CRRU:
Early
childhood education and care in Canada 2004
By
Martha Friendly and Jane Beach
6th edition, May 2005, 232 pp
"Early
Childhood Education and Care in Canada 2004 provides
cross-Canada data and information on regulated child care, kindergarten, maternity
and parental leave together with relevant demographic information."
-
Go to the Non-Governmental Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd2.htm
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Go to the International Children, Families and Youth Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/chn2.htm
| 7. Poverty Dispatch Digest :
U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs --- August 4 |
POVERTY
DISPATCH Digest
Institute for Research on Poverty - U. of Wisconsin
This
digest offers dozens of new links each week to full-text articles in the U.S.
media (mostly daily newspapers) on poverty, poverty, welfare reform, child welfare,
education, health, hunger, Medicare and Medicaid, and much more...
The Institute
for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a
free e-mail service that consists of an e-mail message sent to subscribers each
Monday and Thursday, containing a dozen or so links to articles dealing with the
areas mentioned above. The weekly Canadian Social Research Links Poverty Dispatch
Digest is a compilation, available online, of the two dispatch e-mails for that
week --- with the kind permission of IRP.
Here's
the complete collection of U.S. media articles in this week's Poverty Dispatch
Digest:
(click the link above to read all of these articles)
August
4, 2005
Today's subjects include: Uninsured
Children // Medicaid Expansion // Medicaid and Undocumented Immigrants // Illegal
Workers, Retirement, and Social Support // Welfare Program and Hmong Refugees
- Wisconsin // Welfare Program Administration - Wisconsin // Medicaid - New York
// Health Care Program - Tennessee, Massachusetts // Uninsured Children - Indiana,
Minnesota, Arizona // Child Support Enforcement - Kentucky, Louisiana // No Child
Left Behind Act - Chicago, Detroit // Educational Achievement - New Jersey //
Low-Income Housing - Boston
August
1, 2005
Today's subjects include: Fatherless
Families and Poverty // Governors' Medicaid Plan - Editorial // State Budget and
Welfare - Wisconsin // Working Poor and Poverty - Lima, OH // Improving the Social
Safety Net - Boston // Push for Faith-Based Antipoverty Initiative - Utah // Minimum
Wage - Michigan // Cuts in State Health Plan - Tennessee // Marriage Bonus Proposal
- Washington, DC // Kids Count Report and Unemployed Parents - Washington, DC,
Delaware // Child Well-Being - Indiana, Alabama // Prekindergarten - Louisiana
// School Dropout Rate for Foster Children - Georgia // School Outreach in Poor
Neighborhood - Rochester, NY // Food Stamps and Food Assistance - Oregon // Food
Assistance - Connecticut // Homelessness - New Hampshire
Each
of the weekly digests below offers dozens of links or more to media articles that
are time-sensitive.
The older the link, the more likely it is to either be
dead or have moved to an archive - and some archives [but not all] are pay-as-you-go.
[For
the current week's digest, click on the POVERTY DISPATCH Digest link above]
The Poverty Dispatch weekly digest is a good tool for monitoring what's happening in the U.S.; it's a guide to best practices and lessons learned in America.
Subscribe
to the Poverty Dispatch!
Send an e-mail message to John Wolf < jwolf@ssc.wisc.edu
> to receive a plain text message twice a week with one to two dozen links
to media articles with a focus on poverty, welfare reform, child welfare, health,
Medicaid from across the U.S.
And it's free...
Source:
Institute for Research
on Poverty (IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison
]
For the current week's digest, click on the
POVERTY DISPATCH Digest link at the top of this section.
Recently-archived
POVERTY DISPATCH weekly digests:
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July
28, 2005
- July
21
- July
14
- July
7
- June
30
POVERTY
DISPATCH description/archive - weekly issues back to October 2004 , 50+
links per issue
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