Gavin Dew: After COVID, young families need our help
Just before the COVID-19 response kicked in, the Forum for Millennial Leadership commissioned a national opinion research study looking for ideas Canadians could agree on to make life better for young families.
Physical distancing accelerated trends that bring greater consumer convenience while making many entry-level jobs precarious or obsolete. Rapidly increased adoption of e-commerce and food delivery has hastened a storefront apocalypse that was already decimating Main Street businesses and entry-level jobs.
Even before months of working from home shone a spotlight on the juggling act of working parents, 77 per cent of Canadians said we should encourage flexible and remote working arrangements for working parents; many support tax incentives for companies to do so; 73 per cent say we should implement tax measures to help parents working part time from home while raising children.
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