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Boost welfare rates, advocates urge
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
April 9, 2012
Advocates are holding press conferences across the province in a bid to stop the Liberal minority government’s proposed changes to benefits in the latest budget. They say Ontarians on social assistance are already suffering and the changes, if approved, would in effect be a reduction in benefits… the changes would have a trivial impact — 0.072 per cent — on Ontario’s finances, but worsen the lives of the poor dramatically… Mike Harris cut welfare rates by 21.6 per cent in 1995. Increasing them now by 55 per cent would merely compensate for that and adjust for inflation.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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