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Ontario Seeking Input on Basic Income Pilot
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
The pilot would test whether a basic income is a more effective way of lifting people out of poverty and improving health, housing and employment outcomes. Through the consultations, Ontario is seeking input from across the province, including from people with lived experience, municipalities, experts and academics. The province will also work with Indigenous partners to tailor a culturally appropriate engagement process
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Have Patience Policy Analysts, Souls are Stirring [GAI/Basic Income]
Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
Interest in Basic Income is spreading all over the world, including Canada. A Guaranteed Annual Income (an earlier descriptor) is now federal Liberal party policy. Ontario is moving forward with a Basic Income pilot under the design of longstanding champion, retired Senator Hugh Segal… Spirits are rising. People want to shake things up. They are tired of a welfare system that keeps people poor and provides little hope and no dignity.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Basic Income: Rethinking Social Policy
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016
There has been a resurgence of political interest in Canada in the rather old idea of a universal basic income, sometimes called a guaranteed annual income… contributors to this compendium have different views on the risks and benefits of a basic income, but all agree that we must not waste this opportunity to rethink welfare and put equality and social justice back at the centre of public policy.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Basic income is coming to Ontario: now what?
Friday, October 7th, 2016
… the evolution of our welfare state has not kept pace with demographic and economic change and the transformation of our labour market: the impact of technological change on work, the instability of the labour market, and the rise of income inequality, which privileges a few at the expense of the many… Canadian policy makers seem to have viewed the welfare state largely as a “cost,” a threat to balanced budgets and fiscal health. While many countries were testing new social models, our focus was on keeping benefits low, targeting more narrowly, privatizing delivery where possible, and lowering public expectations.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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The Best News You Don’t Know [global poverty rates]
Sunday, October 2nd, 2016
The number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.90 per person per day) has tumbled by half in two decades, and the number of small children dying has dropped by a similar proportion — that’s six million lives a year saved by vaccines, breast-feeding promotion, pneumonia medicine and diarrhea treatments! Historians may conclude that the most important thing going on in the world in the early 21st century was a stunning decline in human suffering… Internationally, inequality is on the decline because of gains by the poor in places like China and India.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, Health, poverty, standard of living
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Canada Social Report: A Compendium of Social Information
Thursday, September 29th, 2016
Over the past few years, the loss of data in Canada − especially the troubling dismantling of the long-form Census − inspired the Caledon Institute to launch this effort. The Canada Social Report acts as a major hub for social information. It is a resource for the entire social sector – to give all of us a strong voice and a powerful evidence base for informed policy conversations and the formulation of intelligent policy solutions.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, disabilities, economy, featured, Health, homelessness, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax, youth
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It turns out shockingly few workers will benefit from the steeper CPP we’re all forced to pay
Friday, September 23rd, 2016
The whole “crisis” really centred around a subgroup of a subgroup: those middle-class Canadians without workplace pensions who were supposedly failing to save enough in RRSPs and other vehicles to keep their existing lifestyle after retirement… Before the CPP enhancements, 11.4 per cent of middle-class Canadians were over-prepared for retirement. Now, more than 16 per cent will be over-prepared…
Tags: ideology, participation, pensions, standard of living
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More jurisdictions need to experiment with ways of delivering a guaranteed income
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016
… Leftists like it because, theoretically, it eliminates abject poverty. Techie utopians see it as a solution to the displacement of humans by machines. Intellectuals appreciate state support for creative endeavours with an unclear commercial potential. Libertarians see an opportunity to shrink government… Academic experiments, however, have been too piecemeal and small-scale, so it’s hard for most people to imagine how basic income would work.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Basic income would solve so many problems
Sunday, August 21st, 2016
If everybody had enough money to keep healthy and avoid the stresses of poverty, we would save huge amounts of money on medical care, and we would see our expensive prison population drop. Children would do better at school, and the pool of well-qualified citizens, anxious and ready to make their contribution to society, would increase… too many people with jobs find themselves in a highly precarious stuation, with intermittent or temporary work, wages unpaid or insufficient to live on, and an insecure future.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology
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Liberals are ignoring the changing realities of the retirement age
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
The main fiscal problem with OAS is that its cost is projected to grow faster than the economy – and therefore faster than tax revenues – as a consequence of the baby boom. This will make balancing the books in the future that much more difficult. If tax rates do not increase, then the growth of other federal expenditures will need to be kept in check – including social, health and infrastructure transfers to provincial governments.
Tags: budget, ideology, pensions, standard of living
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