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Welfare in Canada, 2022 is now available
Thursday, July 27th, 2023
This annual report… provides the welfare incomes of four example households receiving social assistance in a calendar year for each province and territory… Included are: The components of welfare incomes and their amounts; How adequate welfare incomes are relative to measures of poverty; How benefit amounts and adequacy have changed over time… The majority of households (29 of 53) saw below-inflation increases to their incomes, and so were not able to keep up with the rising cost of living.
Tags: jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Interpreting the data: Key takeaways from Welfare in Canada, 2021
Friday, March 24th, 2023
Welfare incomes were deeply inadequate across Canada: – All households in every province lived in poverty, and the large majority lived in deep poverty… Most jurisdictions did not make substantive increases to already inadequate social assistance benefits… Total welfare incomes increased in a limited number of cases. In most instances, higher inflation in 2021 negated their positive impact.
Tags: jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Interpreting the data: Key takeaways from Welfare in Canada, 2021
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The data in Welfare in Canada, 2021 reveal five main findings: Welfare incomes were deeply inadequate across Canada: – All households in every province lived in poverty, and the large majority lived in deep poverty… Most jurisdictions did not make substantive increases to already inadequate social assistance benefits… Total welfare incomes increased in a limited number of cases. In most instances, higher inflation in 2021 negated their positive impact.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Time to thaw out Ontario’s poverty reduction promise
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Mar 28 2011
We’re hoping for progress on four priorities for action articulated by the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction: • Ensure no one falls through the cracks in times of need. • Invest in people, their skills, and their efforts to secure work. • Ensure jobs are a pathway out of poverty. • Create infrastructure for opportunity… But many of the problems that poor Ontarians face can and should be fixed, right now… Ontarians want leadership on poverty reduction.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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