{"id":9519,"date":"2020-12-07T08:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9519"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T08:55:37","slug":"labor-launches-child-care-calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/labor-launches-child-care-calculator\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR LAUNCHES CHILD CARE CALCULATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Labor has launched the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/alp.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=942ebc4c1cf8fc522a4f4c50e&amp;id=581b4c3fe6&amp;e=579c54a3a1\">Child Care Calculator<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>so Australian families can find out how much cheaper child care will be under an Albanese Labor Government.<br \/>\nThis new website is a useful tool for the over one million families that will be better off under Labor\u2019s<em>\u00a0Cheaper \u00a0Child Care for Working Families plan<\/em>.<br \/>\nUnder this plan, Labor will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scrap the $10,560 child care subsidy cap which often sees women losing money from an extra day\u2019s work;<\/li>\n<li>Lift the maximum child care subsidy rate to 90 per cent; and<\/li>\n<li>Increase child care subsidy rates and taper them for every family earning less than $530,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labor\u2019s plan will make child care more affordable for 97 per cent of families in the system, and remove financial barriers that disincentivise second income earners, predominantly women, to work full-time.<br \/>\nImportantly, Labor will keep working to fix Australia\u2019s broken child care system, which currently locks out more than 100,000 families because they just can\u2019t afford it.<br \/>\nThe Productivity Commission will conduct a comprehensive review of the sector with the aim of implementing a universal 90 per cent subsidy for all families.<br \/>\nThe ACCC will design a price regulation mechanism to shed light on costs and fees and drive them down for good. The ACCC will examine the relationship between funding, fees, profits and educators\u2019 salaries.<br \/>\nThe Coalition\u2019s child care system has failed parents \u2013 particularly women. It has created a financial disincentive for many second wage earners to work full time, or even increase their hours.<br \/>\nOn top of that, since this Government was elected in 2013, child care fees have skyrocketed by 35.9 per cent.<br \/>\nLabor has put forward a plan for cheaper child care that is win, win, win \u2013 it is good for parents, good for children, and good for the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Labor has launched the\u00a0Child Care Calculator\u00a0so Australian families can find out how much cheaper child care will be under an Albanese Labor Government. This new website is a useful tool for the over one million families that will be better off under Labor\u2019s\u00a0Cheaper \u00a0Child Care for Working Families plan. Under this plan, Labor will: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/labor-launches-child-care-calculator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR LAUNCHES CHILD CARE CALCULATOR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}