Almost a fifth of its population are under 15, roughly half of the households still have children living at home, and infant daycare costs as little as $ 8 a day, because the wide availability of
subsidized day care in the province.
Not exact matches
This second stage informs us that we can indeed have it all, not because all good things
in life can be bad simultaneously (they can not), nor because our newly enlightened husbands will leap into the domestic breach (which Friedan agrees they won't), but because the government will make our bosses give us unpaid maternity leave and
subsidized day -
care slots.
We partner with nonprofits that serve populations
in need — from pantries, to homeless shelters, to backpack projects,
subsidized day care centers and church programs.
In other jurisdictions, I see people fighting against
subsidized day care because (a) young children should be at home with their parents and (b) other people should have to save and pay full price for
day care just like they did.
We chose not to put our children
in day care, despite the fact that
subsidized day care exists where we live and has been wildly successful
in increasing maternal workforce participation while also paying for itself through increased tax revenues.
«But if we really want to improve maternal and child health
in this country, let's also focus on things that can really do that
in the long term — like
subsidized day care, better maternity - leave policies and more employment opportunities for low - income mothers that pay a living wage, for example.»