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‘Why Austerity Kills’
Ultimately austerity has failed because it is unsupported by sound logic or data. It is an economic ideology. It stems from the belief that small government and free markets are always better than state intervention.” Austerity isn’t even good economics: “Austerity has choked off economic growth — deepening recessions. By contrast, governments that have increased public-sector spending have seen faster economic recoveries, which in turn helps them to grow out of debt.”
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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Wynne turning her attention to economics
The Liberals are ruling out some money-saving measures such as increasing school class sizes or delaying the roll-out of full-day kindergarten… Queen’s Park wants to avoid significant public sector layoffs… The Premier contends that subsidizing the wages of young workers while they learn in-demand skills will lead to permanent employment, and a better-trained work force will allow businesses to expand… Where once she framed these matters in social-justice terms, now she speaks of them in economic ones.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, youth
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Study of immigrant worker’s plight leads researchers to press for reform
… after the 2013 Ontario budget was approved, including a freeze on minimum wage, Finance Minister Charles Sousa said the province is focusing its efforts on stimulating the economy and there are no plans to increase the wage any time soon… the study highlighted the mental and physical tolls of long-term unemployment or underemployment. Even of those who had found work, 59 per cent of participants reported being anxious about losing their job.
Tags: economy, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Region invites senator’s perspective on poverty, low-wage work
… precarious employment… has grown by 50 per cent in the last 20 years… In addition to poverty, the unstable employment situation causes higher levels of anxiety… Eggleton said government doesn’t necessarily need to increase funding for social services to reduce poverty, but instead change the ways services are provided along with reforming policies regarding services, taxes and employment insurance.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Economy looms as 2015’s big issue
… despite all the fanfare over trade agreements, Canada still hasn’t completed a single one within growth-oriented Asia… We have neither diversified markets adequately nor moved our mix of exports satisfactorily beyond commodities. The OECD regularly places us in the bottom half of innovation nations… we are looking yet again for a recovering U.S. economy to lift us up and for the world to knock on our door for minerals and foodstuffs.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Charities aid our economies, communities and lives
As part of their reduced commitment, governments replaced core funding with short-term project funding that no longer paid for overhead or staffing. This short-sighted approach gutted the organizational capacity of many charities, especially small to medium ones. As a result, these charities lack the necessary personnel, infrastructure and resources to successfully fundraise… time to identify the needs, build internal capacity and measure outcomes … just like businesses.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, philanthropy, standard of living, tax
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Canada Job Grant program is ‘deeply flawed,’ report says
Ottawa’s $900-million job grant scheme is a windfall for companies that already train workers, opens few new opportunities for the unskilled and saps funds from existing government efforts, according to a new report. The program is “deeply flawed public policy” and should be scrapped… Last week, Ontario threatened to boycott the program unless Ottawa reverses its plan to cut money from existing programs to pay for it.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, privatization, tax
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Whose ‘Independent Thought’ Is Andrew Coyne Plugging?
Neoliberal think-tanks — Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, and Montreal Economic Institute — have pushed these ideas for years. The ideas moved onto the policy agenda after Harper gained control of Parliament… Aurea has given over a million dollars a year to the Fraser Institute and its allies to promote ideas like eliminating supply management, introducing private ownership on First Nation reserves, instituting right to work, and privatizing government programs and services like highways and bridges.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, rights
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Frugality, at any cost, not always best solution to economic woes
… hard-liners at the International Monetary Fund surprised observers by advising European countries to scale back on their austerity measures. They also warned Canadian policy-makers against pulling too hard on the reins of austerity… Canadians are being kept in the dark about the details of the Conservative multi-year program to cut about $5 billion a year until the election in 2015. One observer calls it “strategic obfuscation”.
Tags: budget, economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living
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Fire Jason Kenney and freeze immigration
About 1.3 million Canadians don’t have jobs. Another million are underemployed or have given up looking for work. The unemployment rate for the young is twice the national average, though they are the most educated in our history. Yet Kenney has kept bringing 250,000 and more immigrants every year. Many of them can’t find jobs, either. Their unemployment rate is twice the national rate. Of those who do have jobs, three in four are not working in their fields — not using the education and skills for which they were selected as immigrants.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living, youth
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