Child care talks begin, but funding in question
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Ottawa and the provinces are starting talks to create something many Canadian families only dream of right now: quality, affordable, and universal day care.
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General Motors Corp  and the United Auto Workers union could negotiate into next week after failing to produce a breakthrough on the thorny issue of health care costs, people briefed on the progress of the talks said on Thursday.
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As negotiations begin on an economic stimulus package, the big fight will be over whether to put extra money in the hands of low-income families who paid little or no income tax last year.
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Health chiefs in Cardiff might not support the final phase of the Children's Hospital of Wales because of its cost.
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There is a slight uptick in the number of men who provide early childhood care or education to children 5 and younger.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 7--The Northwest Children's Home Nampa and Payette Education Centers are asking for donations to help students with school supplies.
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The Bush administration sought Wednesday to turn a coming debate over children's health insurance into one that focuses on helping all of the uninsured.
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As Congress edges closer to renewing a health insurance program for children, state officials have made it clear that they have a much different vision for the program's future than the Bush administration.
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MIAMI Â· Community activists gearing up to enroll thousands of children in the state&#39;s health insurance program said Friday they have yet to receive the materials and information necessary to do the job.
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A committee hears testimony on the possible usefulness of stem cells and current research restrictions, but it's an argument that boils down to when human life begins. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Children are entitled to a childhood and parents need help to realise this right, the Conservatives say.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The nature of child care is changing, a Statistics Canada study indicates.
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The multimillion-dollar lobbying effort to expand a children's health insurance program is creating some strange bedfellows.
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Hundreds of low-income families in Virginia stand to receive long-awaited subsidies to help pay for child care under a proposal included in Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's budget.
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VICTORIA (CP) - The first increases in B.C. child-care subsidies in a decade were announced Tuesday.
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The Bush administration is poised to take back $1.1 billion in unspent funds, despite the president's vow to support access to health care for poor children during his convention speech.
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It's an uncertain time for the nation's largest workplace charity drive, the government's Combined Federal Campaign.