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Matthew Lau: Don’t count daycare costs as benefits

Estimates of the benefits of public daycare are wrong to include wages paid to workers or construction costs of new facilities

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Government control of child care really must be expanded. I learned this by listening to an interview last week on the government-funded broadcaster (CBC) with a representative from an activist group (Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care) that has received significant government funding, talking about a report commissioned by her organization and written with input from the executive directors of two other child-care activist groups (Child Care Now and the Childcare Resource and Research Unit) that have also received large sums of money from taxpayers in recent years. Does anyone notice a theme here?

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