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Refunds require returns
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Feb 27 2010
Governments are increasingly turning to refundable tax credits as the best way to deliver benefits to low-income people. Unfortunately, many of them are unaware that these benefits exist and, therefore, do not file the necessary tax return to access them.
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Urban food strategy unveiled
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Feb. 18, 2010.
“People usually don’t think of municipal governments being big players in food systems. But in fact there’s a number of levers that city governments have,” he said.
“Food programs, community gardens, communal food education. Those kinds of things can help the city to achieve its objectives in terms of addressing the needs of inner-city communities.”
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The pension crisis myth
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
February 16, 2010.
…claims that most Canadians are not saving enough are based on assertions or faulty studies. Recent evidence suggests most Canadians make pretty good decisions for themselves.
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What happens when EI runs out?
Monday, February 15th, 2010
February 15, 2010.
…Washington increased its maximum entitlement to two years (double Canada’s) in hard-hit states. In most European countries, workers who exhaust their jobless benefits move into follow-up programs that offer training, counselling and modest, but not penurious, income support.
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What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
Friday, February 12th, 2010
December 17, 2009
We too have lived through an era of stability, certainty, and the illusion of indefinite economic improvement. But all that is now behind us. For the foreseeable future we shall be as economically insecure as we are culturally uncertain. We are assuredly less confident of our collective purposes, our environmental well-being, or our personal safety than at any time since World War II. We have no idea what sort of world our children will inherit, but we can no longer delude ourselves into supposing that it must resemble our own in reassuring ways.
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Welfare reviewed by those who know
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Published On Thu Jan 28 2010.
…the people’s review of social assistance,” a process led by 20 social assistance recipients to identify what’s wrong with the current system and to make recommendations to change and enhance the way municipalities deliver services, communities offer supports and governments provide income security benefits.
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NDP timely on pensions
Friday, January 15th, 2010
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – NDP timely on pensions
Published On Fri Jan 15 2010
Give Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath credit for seizing the initiative on pension reform at a time when so many others are conspicuously silent or running for cover.
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Desperate appeal to break cycle of poverty
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
TheStar.com – News/GTA – Desperate appeal to break cycle of poverty
Published On Sat Dec 26 2009. Leslie Ferenc, Staff Reporter
You could have heard a pin drop as Shobha Adore talked about the realities of life in Rexdale.
“It’s part of this city where a little boy gets a loaded semi-automatic for his 11th birthday as a rite of passage,” she told members of the Economic Club of Canada recently.
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A real fix for poverty
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
NationalPost.com – FPComment – A real fix for poverty: Canada’s welfare system is stuck in the Victorian era, wasting billions. It’s time to drop the old, failed approach
Posted: December 15, 2009. By Hugh Segal
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Punished for working too diligently
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
TheStar.com – Opinions – Punished for working too diligently
Published On Wed Dec 16 2009. By Carol Goar Editorial Board
If you’re one of the people who thinks welfare recipients should get out and work, Linda Chamberlain agrees with you.
She loves her job. Her health has improved since she was hired by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health three years ago. She’s on fewer medications for her schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. She seldom uses food banks. She takes home her paycheque proudly.
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