In response to: >This commentary was published in the Globe and Mail on Thursday February 24th. > >Children, a Business Concern? >By Judith Maxwell > > >Canadian business leaders are not lobbying governments to invest in healthy >child development in forthcoming budgets. How come? Am I too cynical when I say that the economic machine lobbys government for ample human service budgets when that machine needs human beings to assist in generating profit. With the decline for the need for the human cog as a component to increase economic productivity, so too is there a decline in the lobbying for the human services that enable infants to develop into resilient, competent adult workers. Parsimoniously, if the economy does not need human beings to generate profit, why should the captains of the economy lobby for the allocation of resources into an arena that is unproductive from their perspective? A short-term and short-sighted perspective, but who has the gold? Not folks like me who have spent their professional lives as child/youth advocates--most recently at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, U of California, Berkeley (defunct as of 1/1/2000). Peter Peter Seidman 1238 Josephine Street Berkeley, CA 94703-1112 510-528-4344 (phone and fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
