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Liberals eye hard-hearted fraud policy
Friday, August 12th, 2011
August 12, 2011
… welfare fraud, although “characterized as pervasive,” was actually “exceptionally low”… In 2001-02, the waning years of the PC government, convictions represented roughly 0.1% of the social assistance caseload… “Simply being on social assistance results in one being positioned as a penal object in a climate of moral condemnation, surveillance, suspicion and penalty. This criminalization is particularly gendered in that the majority of people on social assistance are women, and the majority of them are single parents.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Balance needed in wage debate
Friday, February 25th, 2011
February 23, 2011
… the Canadian Federation of Independent Business… study, Minimum Wage: Reframing the Debate, is not persuasive enough to end minimum-wage policies… It concludes that, rather than use minimum wage hikes to help low-income people, governments should use tax policies such as increasing the basic personal exemption and lowering personal income tax–as well as retraining programs–to help those on minimum wage. It is, in effect, an argument to allow businesses to employ more people at lower wages, while governments pay more.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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The kids are all right, but we could be doing better
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Jan. 11, 2011
… our efforts in education — through at-risk programs and early childhood initiatives — are paying off. We’re not getting ahead, but we’re not falling behind, either. But now comes the C.D. Howe Institute’s warning that dropout rates for boys, students in poverty and aboriginals, are too high… The report makes four recommendations:
Tags: child care, poverty, youth
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