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  1. Anger as lead found at 10 Broken Hill childcare centres
    By Em Jensen and Bill Ormonde

    The NSW Environment Protection Agency faces criticism after finding high lead contamination at 10 of Broken Hill's 13 childcare facilities.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/lea

    #Lead #ChildCare #ChildrensHealth #RegionalCommunities #StateandTerritoryGovernment #EmJensen #BillOrmonde

  2. Edge Early Learning Centre closed after child hospitalised

    Edge Early Learning in Port Augusta has been ordered to close after an incident which resulted in the hospitalisation of a child attending the service.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/edg

    #ChildCare #EarlyChildhoodEducationandCareServices

  3. Some have also raised concerns about whether it could increase the risk of fraud, since the money would be going to individuals rather than businesses. The admin has sought to crack down on #fraud in #SocialServices programs, particularly #childcare.

    The idea of paying #parents to stay home was outlined in #Project2025, the #conservative blueprint published by the #HeritageFoundation ahead of #Trump’s return to office, much of which overlaps with the admin’s #policy agenda.

    #law #FarRight

  4. The change would create the only federal subsidy to pay #parents to stay home & raise their children, one of the most significant efforts to date by the #Trump admin to harness federal funds to promote a #traditional view of #families.

    To do so, officials are seeking to use a #HHS fund that was created in the 1990s to help #LowIncome & #WorkingClass parents afford #childcare so they could work or go to school.

    #law #FarRight #conservative #MaleSupremacy #TradWives #sexism #misogyny #plutocracy

  5. #DemocraticSocialists surge in mayoral races across the US as anti-Trump fervor rises

    By MATT BROWN
    Updated 12:05 AM EDT, June 19, 2026

    WASHINGTON (AP) — "As #JaneeseLewisGeorge paves a path to the mayor’s office in #WashingtonDC, she’s told voters they could have it all.

    "Her unapologetically expansive, left-wing agenda includes subsidized or even free #childcare, increased down payment assistance for homebuyers and community resources to reduce crime, plus a promise to aggressively confront President Donald Trump’s attempts to reshape the nation’s capital.

    " 'People are tired of hearing what government can’t do. They want to hear what government can do,' Lewis George said in an interview before the city’s primary, where she defeated her Democratic opponents and positioned herself to win the general election in November in a city dominated by Democrats.

    "Lewis George’s victory signals a break with a quarter-century of centrist governance in Washington, and it puts her in the vanguard of democratic socialists who have ascended in urban politics over the last year. #ZohranMamdani toppled Andrew Cuomo, the scion of a political dynasty, on his way to becoming New York City mayor. #KatieWilson won an upset victory to lead Seattle last fall. And this month, #NithyaRaman clinched a spot in the November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass."

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/democratic-

    #AntiTrump #USPol #TrumpSucks #DSA #DSANews

  6. This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

    If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
    "Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
    "We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

    Hettie O’Brien: youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

    #mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

  7. 🗞️ CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou (Department of #Gerontology at University of #Southampton) recently wrote an article examining why white British #families are more likely to depend on #grandparents for #childcare, drawing on findings from #UnderstandingSociety data.

    Head to section 5 of the latest #ChangingPopulations magazine to read the article: sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05

    #family #demography #ageing #workingparents #childcarecosts

  8. Well, here's a good use of #AI. Now, let's make it so!!! This is the #GiantLeap we all need to survive!

    I Asked #ChatGPT What Would Happen If #Billionaires Paid Taxes at the Same Rate as the #WorkingClass

    Story by Laura Beck
    10/23/2025

    Excerpts:

    What That Money Could Actually Buy

    "To put these numbers in perspective, ChatGPT explained what this kind of revenue could fund. Even the conservative estimate of $500 billion per year could pay for transformative programs.

    "That amount could cover free public #college tuition, universal pre-K programs, massive #infrastructure investments and a huge #healthcare expansion. It could fund comprehensive #ChildCare support and #FoodAssistance programs.

    "The AI emphasized that we’re talking about enough money to fundamentally change how the government operates and what services it can provide."

    The Global Ripple Effects

    "ChatGPT pointed out that if major economies like the United States started taxing billionaires at working-class rates, it could encourage similar moves worldwide.

    "This might lead to reduced global tax avoidance, more coordinated international tax policies and pressure on tax havens to reform their systems.

    "The AI said this could create a positive cycle where it becomes harder for the ultra-wealthy to avoid paying their fair share anywhere in the world."

    msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/i-as

    #World3 #SolarPunk #PayYourFairShare #Billionaires #TaxTheRich #UltraWealthy #NoTaxHavens #SocietalChange #ShareTheWealth #SolarPunkSunday

  9. #Trump’s #incoherent answer was somehow worse than the one his running mate, #JDVance, gave Wed at a Turning Point Action event in #Arizona when asked a similar question. #Vance told *conservative* pundit Charlie Kirk that he would suggest people turn to their family members to help w/ #childcare, or, if family members were not available, to loosen education requirements for childcare workers.

    #weird #insane #inane #deranged #Nonsense #TrumpIsUnfit

    #WeAreNotGoingBack
    #HarrisWalz2024

  10. #OHIO news on #FLIPBOARD -

    New texts show #FirstEnergy allegedly working with #GovDeWine to pass #HouseBill6

    #Hospital price transparency could save #Ohioans on #medicalcare

    Despite millions spent on service upgrades, Ohio #utilities still miss reliability marks

    #RiteAid closing more #pharmacies in Ohio

    Extreme #gerrymander of Ohio’s #TuscarawasCounty is Exhibit No. 1 for why reform is needed

    #Childcare bills pile up in #OhioGeneralAssembly

    flipboard.com/@dustcircle/ohio