MEPs back 20 weeks' maternity leave on full pay | World news | The Guardian

I heard someone, an MEP I think, on the radio this morning arguing for this on the grounds we need women in Europe to have more children otherwise there will be more immigrants. There are many better arguments I am sure for extending maternity leave but Europe is haunted by far-right orchestrated opposition to migration and this seems to be infiltrating child and family policy debates. MEPs back 20 weeks' maternity leave on full pay | World news | The Guardian

Investing in young children

The fiscal crisis of the State in the US forms the context of this evaluation of early childhood programmes including Head Start conducted by The Brookings Center on Children and Families and The National Institute for Early Education Research.