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Ontario’s embarrassing social decline
Saturday, September 1st, 2012
August 31, 2012
The bad news is found in the report, Falling Behind: Ontario’s Backslide into Widening Inequality, Growing Poverty and Cuts to Social Programs, released on Wednesday by the Ontario Common Front, a coalition of community groups, labour unions and students… “Ontario has sunk to last place in Canada when measured against every important social indicator,” says a news release about the report… • Ontario funds all its social programs — from health care to education — at the lowest rate in Canada;.. • Ontario has led Canada on cuts to corporate and incomes taxes.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Band-Aid approaches not working
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Dec. 11, 2010
Persistent Poverty, the book released earlier this month… provides a collection of sharings by poor people in Ontario communities, large and small, urban and rural. It is compelling, provocative, distressing and disturbing… Persistent Poverty tells us there is need for educating the public that poverty is primarily a result of insensitive and uncaring public policy, and for showing that other jurisdictions have acted to reduce and in some cases almost eliminate the incidence of poverty. The book makes a case for these and more. The timing could not have been better.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty
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