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Hard to have Dignity if you’re Hungry
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
July 26, 2010
The cancellation of the Special Diet Allowance and meagre increases in social assistance rates are setbacks on any promised path to transform social assistance. If a person is hungry, it is harder to learn, to work, to avoid depression, to avoid chronic diseases such as diabetes and to “eat right.” Hundreds of thousands of Ontario residents need more healthy food now… The organizations signing this joint statement also commit to work together with our patients, clients, neighbours and fellow Ontario residents in support of their equal rights to an income that provides a life of health and dignity.
Tags: Health, poverty
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Social Assistance Advisory Council Report’s Bold Vision for Tomorrow Does Not Put Food on the Table Today
Monday, June 14th, 2010
14 Jun 2010
“The Ontario Government has ignored the needs of the most vulnerable in the province. It sets up a panel on social assistance and shortly thereafter cuts the Special Diet Allowance, reneges on the dental program for adult recipients, and reduces the woefully inadequate real income of recipients by 1% in the latest budget. While the panel claims to promote long-term reform, the real situation with people on the ground is deteriorating rapidly.”
Tags: poverty, standard of living
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Focus on Food & Income
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
April 20, 2010
Several events on April 13, 14 and 15 in Toronto focused attention on the issue of the inadequate access of people on social assistance to healthy food. Ten local celebrities reported on the results of their attempts to live on one week’s supply of food bank provisions. None could make the food hamper they were given last through the week and several used community dining services provided by churches and charities to make it through the week.
Tags: Health, poverty, standard of living
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2010 Budget Holds Only Threat For Ontario’s Most Vulnerable
Friday, March 26th, 2010
March 25, 2010
“…the Government’s claim that it is increasing rates by 1% and has already increased rates by 11% since 2003 is a charade… these 1-2% increases are cost of living adjustments, made to protect the purchasing power of the existing rates. They are not real rate increases. So, actually for people on social assistance in this province, Premier McGuinty’s Government has done absolutely nothing to begin to reverse the 22% rate cuts instituted by Mr. Harris in 1995.”
Tags: featured, poverty
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