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10 Things to Know About Poverty Measurement in Canada
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Use of the Low Income Measure (LIM) would suggest that poverty in Canada has seen mild fluctuations since the mid-1990s… The LIM is useful for international comparisons…Use of the Market Basket Measure (MBM) suggests that Canada has seen a major decrease in poverty over the past decade… If you’re poor according to the MBM, it’s because experts believe you could not afford that basket of goods in your community.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario to spend $90M yearly on free dental care for low-income seniors
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
The Doug Ford government says it will spend $90 million annually to provide free routine dental care to low-income seniors in Ontario…about 100,000 seniors will benefit from the program when it is fully implemented… the program aims to reduce emergency room visits by seniors suffering from dental problems and it is a part of a comprehensive provincial plan to end “hallway health care.”
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Good advice on fixing Ontario’s welfare system
Monday, November 4th, 2019
“Low benefit rates leave people in deep poverty, and program rules create barriers to their participating in the labour force and improving their lives,” the report says… In short, a focus on cuts rather than results has not only made the lives of the poor more miserable, but it has worked against efforts to get people back into the labour force.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty
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Lessons from Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Michael Mendelson looks at Ontario’s experience to offer lessons on how to – and how not to – set up future Basic Income trials. The report focuses in particular on three aspects of the pilot in which the experimental design fell short: lack of a “saturation” site, problems of enrollment, and use of the income tax system to test recipients’ income… The author also suggests a five-step process for governments considering another Basic Income experiment…
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Poverty costs Ontario up to $33B annually, new report says
Friday, October 4th, 2019
The study, entitled The Cost of Poverty in Ontario, examines the relationship between poverty, poor health, the justice system and lost productivity. It makes the economic case that investing in people by reducing poverty is not only socially responsible but financially sound. The loss of what’s known as “opportunity income” accounts for the largest chunk of the cost of poverty — $19.4 to $25 billion — followed by health care with $3.9 billion.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Ford government cancels planned cuts to social assistance payments
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
The Ford government is scrapping controversial cuts to welfare for vulnerable children and adults with part-time jobs as part of a broader review of Ontario’s social assistance system… Each month, the Transition Child Benefit helps an average of 32,000 children whose families are either not receiving the Ontario Child Benefit and the Canada Child Benefit or are not getting the full amount.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Open Letter to federal candidates urging support for a national basic income
Friday, September 6th, 2019
A great many [issues] are linked to income insecurity, which manifests itself in the form of costly symptoms, like anxiety, illness and societal unrest. If the underlying problem is about income, however, then the solution must be too or it will not get better.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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How raising the age for CPP and OAS to 67 would benefit the whole country
Monday, April 15th, 2019
It’s past time we updated a retirement-income system conceived in the days when people lived just 10 to 15 year after retirement… “This isn’t a recommendation to assist the government in improving sustainability or save the government money.” … Retirees will need more savings than previous generations because they will live longer, because company pensions have become more scarce and because saving is made more difficult by low interest rates.
Tags: economy, pensions, standard of living
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Ottawa takes first steps towards improving Canadian retirements
Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
Many employers have now shifted to defined-contribution plans, where workers tuck away a certain amount of savings every month. These plans can help an employee accumulate a substantial stash over the course of his or her career. The problem is that once the employee retires, it is entirely up to him or her to figure out how to transform those accumulated savings into a steady stream of income that can last a lifetime.
Tags: economy, pensions, standard of living
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Alberta makes the biggest strides as child poverty rates drop across Canada
Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
Alberta has the lowest child poverty rate in the country at 5 per cent, having managed to cut its rate in half in just two years, between 2015 and 2017… University of Calgary economist Ron Kneebone pointed to the national Canada Child Benefit and, at least in Alberta, the Alberta Child Benefit, as the biggest reasons for this improvement. Both were introduced in recent years to provide better income supports for parents.
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