Search results for “site/economics of childcare”

  • Ricardo Grinspun

    PhD

  • Kari Levitt

    Professor (Emeritus)

  • Ellen Russell

    PhD

  • Mario Seccareccia

    PhD

  • Jesse Hajer

  • Ian Hudson

    Provincial Budget, Taxation

  • Ontario’s plan to deregulate child care is a bad movie that parents have seen – and rejected – before

    Parents, children and the child care sector are facing an extraordinary crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. So you might reasonably hope that the Ontario government would use a scheduled five-year review of the Child Care and Early Years Act to directly address these challenges: beef up health, safety…

  • Legal Aid Denied: A 20th Anniversary retrospective

    Legal Aid Denied: Women and the Cuts to Legal Services in BC was written in 2004 shortly after the election of a neo-conservative Liberal government in BC. The report outlined the nature of the changes this government quickly introduced to the provision of Legal Aid in BC including slashing funding…

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    Armine Yalnizyan talks care economy, economic theory, and walking with giants

    The celebrated economist was recently awarded the Galbraith Prize in Economics.

    The following text is a transcript of a speech given by Armine Yalnizyan, Atkinson Fellow On The Future Of Workers and former senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to the Canadian Economics Association at Toronto Metropolitan University on May 31, 2024. Yalnizyan was accepting the Galbraith Prize in…

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    9 things to look for in Monday’s BC Budget

    BC’s new government is set to table its first provincial budget on Monday, September 11. While it is expected to be less comprehensive than a full budget (as almost half the year has already passed), the investments made or missing from it will reveal a lot about this government’s priorities.…

  • Why gender equality will make you rich and popular

    Closing the gender gap would transform the world we live in–for men, for women, for the better. Just imagine a world in which you have more time to spend doing the things you love, with the people you love. Imagine a world in which you have secure, decent work in…

  • The problems with the textbook analysis of minimum wages

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the sorry state of the BC minimum wage, stuck at $8 after nine years two months and still counting. Yes, it will likely increase very soon, now that almost all leadership candidates on both sides have expressed support for higher minimum wages, but…