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Problem one: Decent quality child care is hard to find and expensive.
Problem two: People can become stuck on welfare because if they took a job, they wouldn't be able to afford day care for their children while they were away working.
Solution: Instead of simply demanding that welfare recipients
"find a job or else", give them the option of taking child care training classes and then working in a day care center (or opening their own center). This gives them a valuable skill, a decent job, lets them stay with their children during the day, and gives other people a good place to leave their kids during the day.
baked in canada: ontario works
http://www.gov.on.c...vices/ontworks.html
training + welfare = a job. in theory, at least. [mihali, Mar 07 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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'Welfare case' does not imply 'bad person'. In any case, you would be entrusting your child to a 'well-trained ex-welfare case'. |
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Somebody explain Jeremi and Jerimi2 to me....assuming they are the same person, doesn't seem to be a case of "forgot password/create another account", so what's the deal? |
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Oh, and here's another case of failing to select a category when posting a new idea. Go get him, Bristolz....grrrr ;-) |
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This seems pretty standard practice among the more enlightened social security systems. In Britain and many other places, the unemployed (including single mothers) can receive a variety of state-funded training. The British Labour government's "New Deal for Lone Parents" offers help with training, childcare and finding employment. |
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Of course, being a parent doesn't necessarily mean you could be a child-care professional. But I would say, baked. |
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There is a system in place in Australia called HomeCare. It does just this. Mothers with children at home may obtain training and apply to look after 5 children (including their own) from their homes. They are required to also undergo snap safety audits on a regular basis, as well as background checks. The system seems to work better and less controversially than the child fostering system we have here. |
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Peter... that's very offensive. |
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[UB] Does that mean that it the person who does the training already has 6 kids that they take one away? |
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Jeremi2 was an account that I when I mysteriously couldn't log into my Jeremi account for about 3 days straight. I figured my password for Jeremi must have been munged somehow. Then Jeremi started working again. |
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Email bakesperson@halfbakery.com, and Jutta can fix it for you. |
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Jeremi spoke in class today
try to forget this...
try to erase this...
from the bakery |
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[admin: I've moved Jeremi2's stuff over to Jeremi and deleted Jeremi2's account.] |
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