A Comprehensive Childcare Program

Last week Statistics Canada reported that children attending day-care performed better in the first years of school than children who did not attend any kind of preschool programmes. This highly publicized finding is particularly interesting looking at a potential government launch of a comprehensive childcare programme, which would allow more women to enter the workplace, ready preschool age children for public schools, and prepare Canada for the 21st century. This paper will examine the expected reactions of Friedman, Galbraith, Okun and Cobb and Cobb towards the child care proposal.

Markets work well, so the government does not need to impose a childcare programme (which would be inefficient anyway, since governments fail to work well). The government needs to have a minimal paternalistic role in society. Special interest groups impose their agenda on the government, which in effect is ignorant to the negative implications on our laissez-faire marketplace, and by extension, our freedom. S

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Education is a way out, kids have a better chance to make a more informed decision, be less dependent on material goods, and live in a more intrinsically affluent society when given an equal chance to succeed. Consumerism over citizenship still prevails.

GALBRAITH

The childcare programme proposal is sound in its goals to ensure equality. By providing comprehensive childcare to every working mother and child, there is a balance created both in the educational system among students and in the workplace among the sexes which downplays the effects of bad luck and increases an individual’s abilities and chances to succeed in the marketplace.

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. Arguably, this program and its effects (better educated children and increased number of working women) should be included in the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, but like education, it is not because it is a defensive expenditure.

The benefits of the comprehensive childcare programme greatly outweigh the costs.

OKUN

This programme would have a positive effect on income redistribution, since more women are able to enter the workforce, therefore perpetuating equality efficiently. The programme would increase the ISEW by improving income distribution, since more women would be working. The goals are clear, now a plan is a must, in order to raise women’s equality, reduce poverty, prosper economically and prepare a productive labour force for the future. The provision of daycare falls into place as a neighbourhood effect, and a monopolistic government childcare programme is unnecessary. Efficiency would no longer need to be bought at the cost of inequalities in income and wealth and by the social status and power that go along with it. The programme would be more efficiently run in the marketplace, inc!

luding both competition and privatization, and the provision of consumer choice. ince capitalism is a precondition to freedom, markets must remain decentralized (with minimal government involvement) and impersonal (so individuals are left to their own resources).

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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