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Fighting poverty
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Dec. 26, 2011
In 2000, the member states of the United Nations declared… the Millennium Development Goals – a set of eight goals and 21 targets dealing with health, education, hunger, gender equality and environmental sustainability… The targets are, in theory, measurable… (But) aid policy doesn’t require wealthy countries to make major domestic changes.
Tags: budget, globalization, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Poor stuck in the middle of an ideological fight
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
January 10, 2011
“The changes to the special diet allowance have been disastrous from the beginning,” sighs Wendy Muckle, executive director of Ottawa Inner City Health. The good news is that eventually, we might be able to have confidence that people who need extra money because of medical conditions are getting the amounts they really need. That won’t happen until at least June 2012, when Munir Sheikh — late of Statistics Canada — and Frances Lankin are supposed to complete their review of all social assistance programs in the province.
Tags: Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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