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How we implement basic income will define our future
Friday, March 24th, 2017
In Western economies… pre-retirement assistance is an increasingly dysfunctional patchwork of schemes. Some are directed at certain groups while ignoring others. Many are tied to employment… We’re coming back to UBI now because the “social contract” between employers and workers lies in ruins. The decline of unions has consigned powerless workers to exploitative workplaces. And the tax system has been perverted to liberate the wealthiest 1 per cent from paying their fair share.
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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A portable housing benefit could ease our homeless crisis
Monday, March 20th, 2017
Here are five reasons why the portable housing benefit is a smart idea: 1. It is the most efficient way to help households in need and address homelessness… 2. It will reduce homelessness… 3. It will reduce poverty… 4. Its portability means it is tied to an individual, rather than a housing unit, giving people choice [and] … 5. It is already working.
Tags: budget, economy, homelessness, housing, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, poverty
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Ottawa should not delay on action to fight poverty
Saturday, February 18th, 2017
… much more must be done to ensure EI reflects the shifting reality of work and is adequate to the current cost of living… Some 170,000 households are currently waiting for [public housing] units, with the average wait time at around four years… the day-care situation remains dire. This situation robs too many people, particularly mothers, of the opportunity to work or train… a refundable version of the [disability tax] credit… would be a far more effective tool for helping those with disabilities who need it the most.
Tags: child care, disabilities, featured, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Poverty Reduction Strategy
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
we are: consulting with Canadians across Canada on poverty reduction; establishing a Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty through an open call for nominations to select leaders, practitioners and experts with experience in poverty and poverty reduction as well as a separate targeted call for nominations to select people who have experienced poverty; and conducting the Tackling Poverty Together research project – an in-depth case study in six communities across Canada.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Liberals Launching Consultations On Poverty Reduction Strategy
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
Duclos said the work of the committee, as well as similar consultations being undertaken by a panel of MPs, is needed to finally build a federal vision on poverty reduction… “how it measures it, how it’s going to monitor the progress in reducing it and how it’s going to collaborate with other governments in order to better support our families living in need and to encourage them to enter the middle class. All of that has been missing.”
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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We have a lot better ways to relieve poverty than the outdated ‘guaranteed minimum income’
Friday, February 10th, 2017
… most periods of low-income are relatively short, requiring supports that cannot be well met by tax-based basic income designs… for the minority of low-income people who are persistently poor, the best solutions involve integrated mixes of income and a variety of services — not a stand-alone standardized income benefit, which is not based on individual circumstances and needs.
Tags: economy, featured, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Poverty Reduction and Disability Income
Friday, February 3rd, 2017
Caledon has proposed a separate income program that would be run by the federal government and would replace provincial/territorial welfare for working age persons with severe disabilities. The design of the proposed Basic Income would be modelled on the federal Guaranteed Income Supplement for low-income seniors.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Anti-poverty activists rally behind Hamilton MPP’s social assistance bill
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
A local initiative called Fix the Gap has launched a postcard writing campaign and website, among other efforts, to press the Liberal government at Queen’s Park to enact the bill that would set the stage for Ontario Works and Ontario Disability Support Program recipients to receive payments that are more consistent with the cost of living… A key feature of the bill would be establishing an expert panel to clarify differences in the cost of living in different regions of the province.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Providing Basic Income Not Best Solution for Poverty
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
… aside from their high cost, [GAI programs] do not respond well to new information about the nature of poverty. In particular, most periods of low income are short-lived and often require solutions that are more time-sensitive and more attuned to individual circumstances than is possible in traditional GAI designs. As well, for the minority of low-income people who are persistently poor, the best solutions involve integrated mixes of income supports and, often, a variety of services.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty
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Revisiting Manitoba’s basic-income experiment
Tuesday, January 24th, 2017
With the renewed interest in basic income, the Mincome data and technical documentation are available for public access. Certainly the socio-economic context of 2017 is different than that of 1977; however, the research design and quality control used to collect the data was state-of-the-art, which remains obvious to this day. Important questions on income and wealth, the impact of a basic income on family stability and how changes in income affect investment in education are all topics Mincome can still usefully address.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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