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If welfare rules worked, so could Linda
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Nov 19 2010
After three decades of battling schizophrenia and homelessness and poverty, Chamberlain finally got a job… Except, under the antediluvian web of provincial rules, she lost half of her paycheque to the government, while her rent-geared-to-income skyrocketed by 471 per cent. She couldn’t keep up. Her bills mounted. She was constantly hungry… “It was killing me slowly” …for every dollar Linda earned over $440 a month, one set of government workers increased her rent, while another set took half of her paycheque. The right hand does not talk to the left.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Farmers’ market vouchers help poor eat farm fresh
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Jul 07 2010
The market vouchers offer a perfect solution. “It gives people a chance to buy things they’d like to buy, rather than what they are forced to take,” says Julia Graham, community health worker… That might help with the Ontario health ministry’s conundrum on how to reform the special diet allowance. People who eat fruit and vegetables tend to be healthier than people who eat tuna three times a week… That way we’d be investing in health and local farming and people wouldn’t be hungry.
Tags: standard of living
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More men needed to fill the gap in daycare
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
March 13, 2010
Four decades later, child care remains the feminist movement’s number-one failure. Despite the constant talk about the vital first three years of development, Canada still has no national daycare program and what scraps of programming exist remain hot pink zones… Overwhelmingly, women raise our children…
Other pink professional ghettos, like nursing and stewardessing (remember that word?), became purple after they unionized, says Judy Rebick, former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Unions brought higher wages, which lured men.
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