{"id":934,"date":"2019-02-28T14:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:28:39","slug":"child-care-called-key-ending-child-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Child care called key to ending child poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rm_daycare_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-935\" src=\"http:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rm_daycare_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1086\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rm_daycare_04.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rm_daycare_04-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rm_daycare_04-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/rm_daycare_04-1024x676.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1086px) 100vw, 1086px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Child care is the missing puzzle piece in Canada\u2019s quest to end poverty, says Campaign 2000 in its annual report being released Tuesday, the United Nations\u2019 Universal Children\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The national coalition dedicated to eradicating child poverty is joining more than 100 parents, grandparents and early childhood educators on Parliament Hill Tuesday to lobby MPs and senators on why Ottawa needs to step up its support for this \u201ccrucial service\u201d for young families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf parents are to escape poverty through workforce participation or education \u2026 access to high-quality child care is essential,\u201d says the coalition, named after Parliament\u2019s 1989 all-party resolution to wipe out child poverty in Canada by 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile high-quality child care is beneficial for all children, it is an especially important buffer from the negative effects of poverty for low-income children,\u201d the coalition says in its report.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto mother Gabrielle Griffith, who has been scrambling to move off welfare and into full-time work, says the stress of finding affordable child care for her son Elijah, 3, has been enormous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be a public service just like health care and public education,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Child care is the missing puzzle piece in Canada\u2019s quest to end poverty, says Campaign 2000 in its annual report being released Tuesday, the United Nations\u2019 Universal Children\u2019s Day. The national coalition dedicated to eradicating child poverty is joining&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/?p=934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesfromthestreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}