Category: Yleinen
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My aims for the election
My name is Veronika Honkasalo. I am a member of the Helsinki City Council, vice-chair of the Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto), a youth researcher and a mother of two school-age children from Helsinki’s Tapulikaupunki. I want to continue my work for a fair and equal Helsinki. Growing inequality is in no-one’s interest. Equal communities are healthy…
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Efforts to limit children’s universal right to daycare must be stopped
The present government has pledged to limit children’s universal right to daycare so that if one or both of the child’s parents are at home on maternity, paternity or child care leave the child would have the right for only part-time day care. However, some allowances could be made recognizing the “social grounds” for the…