POLS 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Child Tax Credit, Child Benefit, Child Care
28 Jun 2015
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Child care falls within the jurisdiction of provincial governments. Forms of provincial supports: subsidies for child care facilities and services, direct subsidies to parents (tax credits). Regulation of child care centers, quality standards and day care professionals. Quebec has put in place a publicly funded universal child care system which is unique in north america. Gradual move towards compulsory public education for children. In 1942, federal subsidies for child care; for women working in essential wartime industries (shared-cost programs) which were only accepted by two provinces (ontario and quebec). Family allowance act (1944); the first universal social program. Response to growing poverty in 1970s: emerging discourse of universality/selectivity. 1977: for the first time federal government began to use tax structure to redistribute income to poor families. Introducing child tax credit for low income family with children. Replacing family allowance and child tax credit with child tax benefit (to be determined by the level of family income)
