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Together, we can achieve a secure retirement for all
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
We need a mandatory, low-cost plan that provides Canadians with secure and predictable retirement incomes. It must be mandatory because we need to be disciplined. It must be low cost because otherwise our hard-earned retirement savings are frittered away in expenses and fees. And we need it to be secure and predictable because it’s hard to retire if we don’t know our incomes at retirement.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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P.E.I. ideal place to pilot basic income guarantee
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
It is a system which guarantees a basic livable income to everyone, for example: seniors, youth, workers, family-based business people and primary producers, persons with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada. It is important to emphasize that BIG payments merely bring people up to the poverty line. It is not luxury. Most people want more than bare-minimum living. Research is showing that a guaranteed income proves to be a great incentive to work for a better life.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Guaranteed livable income a possibility for P.E.I., premier says
Friday, April 4th, 2014
… we have the social assistance system, which was once called a welfare system, which then adapted into the social assistance system. Is the next gradual step to have a guaranteed livable income?… Ghiz said he believes it’s an idea worth exploring. He pointed to a resolution at the federal Liberal convention in February that endorsed a basic annual income project.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario Pension Plan may pay political dividends
Thursday, March 27th, 2014
Building a new Ontario Pension Plan is worthy public policy. But is it a political winner? … Two-thirds of Ontarians worry about having enough money in their old age, and 86 per cent believe there is a retirement income crisis. About seven in 10 say employers are failing to deliver reliable pensions, and blame government for not doing enough.
Tags: ideology, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Minimum income can end poverty
Sunday, March 2nd, 2014
In order to break with institutionalized poverty, a different approach is needed. Otherwise known as a negative income tax, the Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI) ensures an acceptable family income by using the income tax system to top up income to a minimum floor. The GAI’s simplicity is its strength… income-support programs would no longer be needed, which both eliminates gaps and frees up cost savings for other priorities…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, disabilities, economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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How can we not afford a ‘basic annual income’?
Friday, February 28th, 2014
Canada already has cash transfer programs simulating basic income, such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit, Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement… they have… significantly reduced Canada’s rates of child and seniors’ poverty… basic income is only meant to supplement one’s income so that one’s basic needs are met, nothing more… What must also be factored are (1) the efficiencies from redirecting the funds of ineffective and even harmful programs… and (2) the savings from avoiding poverty’s immense cost.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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‘Basic annual income’ loaded with pitfalls
Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
… it would be extremely expensive. It would be divisive, pitting those who stood to lose benefits and services against those whose incomes would rise. And it would require an unprecedented degree of federal-provincial-municipal co-operation. These pitfalls explain why no political leader in the world has moved to a full guaranteed income system… But… He could follow his father’s example. Although Pierre Trudeau did disappoint proponents of a guaranteed annual income, he went on to triple family allowances and create the child tax credit.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Anti-poverty activists put Wynne on trial
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014
Despite her verbal commitment to social justice, more than 1.7 million Ontarians live below the poverty line and 375,000 people in the province Wynne oversees count on food banks each month… The social assistance system continues to drag down the health of its recipients and our communities with abysmally low rates (could you live on $620 a month?), punitive tactics and high surveillance… the NDP leader wouldn’t support Wynne’s minimum wage plan and when asked repeatedly for her position on the matter, she didn’t offer one.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, homelessness, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Disparaging Senator Eggleton is dirty pool
Saturday, February 22nd, 2014
He acted as chairman of an extensive, two-year study: In From the Margins — A Call to Action On Poverty, Housing and Homelessness, released in 2009. It was cochaired by recently retired Conservative Senator Hugh Segal. Together with the other committee members they came up with 76 recommendations for improvements. Both have and continue to champion a guaranteed annual income, showing that, in the long run, such a plan will save Canada money.
Tags: ideology, pensions, poverty, Senate, standard of living
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Give more to the poor
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
… welfare is a trap. Downloading and cutbacks have discontinued many “discretionary” benefits, such as eyeglasses, hearing aids and orthotics. How is anybody supposed to get a job without these fundamental health-care devices? … Then, there is the lack of transportation funding to get to those job interviews… Legislation must be passed as soon as possible to permanently enshrine these needed benefits to those living on a meagre welfare dole. They are relatively inexpensive, but very necessary.
Tags: ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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