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Root causes of inequality and poverty
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Dec 10 2010
The notion of a “cycle of poverty” suggests poverty that is transmitted from generation to generation and implies something inherently deficient in poor people rather than placing a focus on basic living conditions, which are the root causes of inequality and poverty in our society… Research evidence is clear that, compared to the United States and even the United Kingdom, the rate of poverty passed from one generation to the next in Canada is very low. The structural conditions that produce high rates of poverty are…
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Social Assistance Advisory Council Report’s Bold Vision for Tomorrow Does Not Put Food on the Table Today
Monday, June 14th, 2010
14 Jun 2010
“The Ontario Government has ignored the needs of the most vulnerable in the province. It sets up a panel on social assistance and shortly thereafter cuts the Special Diet Allowance, reneges on the dental program for adult recipients, and reduces the woefully inadequate real income of recipients by 1% in the latest budget. While the panel claims to promote long-term reform, the real situation with people on the ground is deteriorating rapidly.”
Tags: poverty, standard of living
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2010 Budget Holds Only Threat For Ontario’s Most Vulnerable
Friday, March 26th, 2010
March 25, 2010
“…the Government’s claim that it is increasing rates by 1% and has already increased rates by 11% since 2003 is a charade… these 1-2% increases are cost of living adjustments, made to protect the purchasing power of the existing rates. They are not real rate increases. So, actually for people on social assistance in this province, Premier McGuinty’s Government has done absolutely nothing to begin to reverse the 22% rate cuts instituted by Mr. Harris in 1995.”
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