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Lower taxes for the poor, TD Bank says
Friday, November 26th, 2010
Nov 25 2010.
… Ottawa should consider cutting taxes for low-income Canadians who are being hit by both economic restructuring and an inequitable tax system that “discourages people from participating in the workforce,” says TD Bank President Ed Clark… Lower income Canadians already face much higher marginal tax rates than higher-income Canadians, he noted, adding that high employment taxes also hit lower-income earners harder… “We should not always assume that fiscal stimulus means more government spending. It could also mean lower taxes for lower income Canadians.”
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Poverty Eradication Key to Canada’s Economic Recovery
Friday, November 26th, 2010
November 24, 2010
Canada’s economic recovery hinges on federal leadership to pull recession victims out of the poor house and prevent Canadians from plunging into deeper poverty, says Campaign 2000’s new report card on child and family poverty… The child poverty rate of 9.1 per cent is slightly less than when it was 11.9 per cent in 1989. Lessons from past recessions tell us that poverty will rise before the recovery is complete. “… Research has clearly demonstrated that there will be significant economic savings and better health outcomes for all of us if we improve the incomes of people in poverty”
Tags: budget, economy, featured, Health, homelessness, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Young men the face of poverty in post-recession Canada: study
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
23/11/2010
…the recession has revealed two key trends. The good news… is that federal and provincial programs for families have helped single mothers deal with poverty. They have better access to child support than in the past, as well as new child benefits… As a result, the number of single mothers relying on welfare has actually fallen… The opposite is true for young, single men. In Ontario, the number in this group on welfare has risen 61 per cent in nine years, to 148,000 from 92,000… “Single, young men are the new face of poverty in Canadian cities”
Tags: poverty, standard of living, youth
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A smart social policy innovation for lean times
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Nov 24 2010
…the Caledon Institute… urges policy-makers to simplify the current hodgepodge of tax deductions, welfare payments and disability benefits into a single national program that provides Canadians who are too disabled to work with an annual stipend of $12,160; a refundable tax credit of $2,000 a year and the equipment and services they need (wheelchair, dialysis equipment, portable oxygen, personal-care attendant, visiting homemaker)… Their proposal would cost the federal government approximately $5 billion a year and save the provinces about $2.6 billion a year for a net public outlay of $2.4 billion.
Tags: budget, disabilities, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s hidden emergency: the ‘vulnerably housed’
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
November 22, 2010
Each night, more than 17,000 Canadians sleep in homeless shelters or on the street. But for every person who’s homeless in Canada, there are 23 households that are vulnerably housed and at high risk of becoming homeless… more than 380,000 individuals and families… It’s often during a transition period or crisis that people fall through the cracks in our health and social safety programs…
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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Poorly housed Canadians face same challenges as homeless: study
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
November 20, 2010
People who don’t have a healthy place to live -regardless of whether they are homeless or housed in substandard conditions -are at high risk of experiencing hunger, physical and mental health problems and hospitalization, the study says. They also have problems accessing needed health care. “The real gulf in health outcomes doesn’t lie between people who are homeless and people who aren’t homeless. It’s between those who have continued access to healthy housing and those who don’t.”
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Major new federal report on poverty released today in the House of Commons
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
November 17, 2010
Today, in the House of Commons, The Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (the HUMA Committee) released its final report on the federal role in addressing poverty… We encourage all other interested parties to comment… The government has 120 days to respond formally to these recommendations.
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Rural Canada loses as politics and business fail to get broadband down the last mile
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Nov. 15, 2010
Governments around the world are spending billions and setting ambitious targets for Internet access and quality. But in Canada, there is a huge disparity in terms of where and how money is spent to expand high-speed access, and by whom. Even the presence – or not – of local community leaders lobbying for change can make the difference between a fully funded network or antiquated dial-up for residents of remote communities. Meanwhile, the fact that many people have Internet access available but don’t connect to it hints at additional barriers of poverty and digital illiteracy.
Tags: economy, globalization, participation, standard of living
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The homelessness and housing crisis in Canada
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
November 13, 2010
“Canada is inching closer to a long overdue and much-needed national affordable housing plan. Bill C-304, draft legislation to create a national plan that was proposed by Libby Davies, MP for Vancouver East, is back for the second round of debate on third reading on Nov. 18. Then the Commons is scheduled to vote on Nov. 24. The Wellesley Institute’s Precarious Housing in Canada 2010 sets out the need, and the framework, for a national housing plan… Advocates hope that the bill will get third and final reading vote before the House rises for the holidays on Dec. 17.”
Tags: homelessness, housing, poverty, standard of living
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In solving the financial crisis, let’s not resort to ‘social cleansing’
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
Nov. 13, 2010
The gap between the poor and the super-rich is not important (as long as we are able to tax the super-rich)… If we manage to bring back growth at the expense of equal opportunity, it will be, as the mayor suggests, a time of social cleansing and lasting impoverishment and division. The consequences of that would be far more serious than a mere recession.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, tax
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