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Without more money welfare ‘reform’ useless
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
March 20, 2012
Suggestions included increasing benefits and the minimum wage, ensuring that people have a livable income, increasing the availability of geared-to-income housing, and increasing the amount of earnings allowed before clawbacks occur. The commissioners made clear the fact that the government did not intend to increase by a loonie the amount spent on social services. This really made the commission’s work a waste of everyone’s time because the only solution to hard-core poverty is adequate funding… When you add in inflation rates and that people already need an increase to bring t hem up to a livable income, the government’s proposed maximum growth rate of 0.5% means that the poor will continue to become poorer each year.
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