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Wages, poverty line
It is unfortunate that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rejects a federal minimum wage increase as part of a poverty reduction strategy… He pits minimum wage increases against government expenditures on infrastructure and children’s benefits, as if they cannot occur simultaneously. What does Mr. Trudeau have against employers paying their share? Should not a full-time worker be guaranteed an income above the poverty line from her or his salary?
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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It’s time trade tycoons address the dark reality of globalization
Acknowledging that modern free trade produces losers as well as winners allows us to start developing and implementing policies to moderate those downsides – and purposely share the upsides. This means actively managing trade flows, limiting beggar-thy-neighbour trade surpluses, supporting incomes for all workers, ensuring sensible and fair exchange rates, and actively fostering domestic investment in desirable, trade-intensive industries.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Immigration: How a bigger Canada benefits us all
Our declining birth rate means we need many more immigrants to increase our population, but this growth must be planned and implemented… without putting an excessive strain on our communities, services and infrastructure… With thoughtful, strategic population growth, Canada could… strengthen our educational institutions, build big cities with smaller carbon footprints, encourage the flow of ideas and people, spark investment and research in our growing economy, and support families
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, standard of living
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‘The world must jettison neoliberal ideology’: A globalization wake-up call
UNCTAD’s analysis… attacks Western governments’ obsession with austerity which has starved global demand… “The world must jettison neoliberal ideology, and launch a ‘global new deal’ with a blitz of investment on strategic sectors. … a return of the ‘developmental state,’ commanding a potent industrial policy, and backed by severe controls on capital flows.” … global corporations… have failed utterly to deliver on the quid pro quo: their promise of growth and prosperity.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Disability Supports and Employment Policy
The objective of this study… was to explore access to disability supports and links to paid employment… The first stream involves technical aids and equipment… required for the performance of a job or paid employment. The second component comprises personal services, such as attendant care and home care. The many problems… can be grouped into three categories related to the availability, affordability and responsiveness of disability supports.
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Government must act to end racism in children’s aid system
… four in 10 children in the care of the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto are black in a city where only 8 per cent of children are. Worse, the problem is not just in Toronto, but throughout the province… Ontario’s children’s minister, Michael Coteau, refused to promise any funding to implement the report’s 18 important recommendations to address issues of racism in the system. This is unacceptable.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, youth
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More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone
In China, farmers whose land has been turned into factories are making more steel than the world needs. In America, idled steelworkers are contemplating how to live off the land… Trade deals, immigrant labor, automation: As Mr. Arkenbout sees it, these are all just instruments wielded in pursuit of the same goal — paying him less so corporations can keep more. “When they don’t need me anymore,” he said, “I’m nothing.”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, pensions, poverty, privatization, standard of living
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Why progressives oppose Canada-EU trade deal
CETA is a sweeping constitution-style document that will restrict public policy options in areas as diverse as intellectual property rights, government procurement, food safety and environmental protection, financial regulation, the temporary movement of workers, and public services. While CETA’s safeguards for labour and the environment are mainly voluntary and weak, the investor protections are strong and fully enforceable.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology
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Is it a housing problem or an income problem?
A system that provided direct funding – income support – to people and families struggling to afford rent would be well within federal capacity to negotiate with the provinces and to administer, say, within existing tax and benefit systems. It would not discriminate among ownership tenures, location or region. Even better, beneficiaries could seek housing that serves their individual needs, not just wherever assisted housing happens to be built.
Tags: economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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You know, this internet thing might turn out to be big [employment]
Technology has been replacing human labour since at least the days of the knitting machine… The past few decades have seen an endless series of blights that were supposed to condemn us to mass unemployment: downsizing, outsourcing, free trade, Dutch disease. And through it all the proportion of the adult population in employment has risen: from 57 per cent in 1976 to 62 per cent in 1989 to nearly 64 per cent at its latest peak, in 2008…
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, standard of living
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