The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) expansion
This collection organizes news and analysis to inform about the federal government's expansion of the Universal Child Care Benefit. The UCCB, initiated by the Harper government in 2006, was substantially increased January 2015. The expansion money for January-July was sent to parents on July 20 in the form of a substantial checque.
Community response:
“With the cost of child care upwards of $1200 a month, parents know that their benefit cheque is a drop in the bucket...If sending out the money months before an election is a way to buy parents to the side of the Conservatives, it is not going to work. Parents need real help in the form of affordable quality child care spaces.”
News and news analysis:
Backlash after Conservative child care tweet
680News, 20 Jul 2015
The rise of the Santa state
Ottawa Citizen, 20 Jul 2015
Nearly $9-million dollars being given to London parents through universal child care benefit payment
AM980, 20 Jul 2015
Analysis: 3 things to know about the UCCB payments' impact
CBC News, 21 Jul 2015
Tories roll out taxpayer-funded payola: Goar
Toronto Star, 21 Jul 2015
Use the federal campaign to fight child poverty
Toronto Star, 21 Jul 2015
It may be universal, but the new child care benefit doesn't benefit everyone equally
Financial Post, 21 Jul 2015
What you need to know about the Universal Child Care Benefit
MacLean's, 18 Jul 2015
Questions and answers to the federal government's hike to the universal child-care benefit
The Province, 21 Jul 2015
Universal Child Care Benefit: What you need to know about these new payments
BNN, 22 Jul 2015
Readers sound off on Universal Child Care Benefit
Global News, 13 Jul 2015
Political cartoons:
Reports:
Before the enhanced UCCB payments were sent to famililes across the country, the CRRU collected a number of reports about the UCCB at different points in time. A number of them can be found below.
PBO report confirms that the Universal "Child Care" Benefit is neither child care nor much of a benefit
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, 31 Mar 2015
The $17.5 billion question: Has the Universal Child Care Benefit given families "choice in child care"?
Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 15 Oct 2013
More than a name change: The universal child care benefit
Caledon Institute of Social Policy, 10 May 2006
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