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Greed is still good for Britain’s elite
Monday, July 4th, 2011
3 July 2011
Brown’s legacy is a society where the poor have not done so badly, the rich have done very well and those in between are seeing a decline in their living standards without precedent since the Second World War… average Britons have become like average Americans, whose living standards have not increased in real terms since 1975, despite GDP doubling… Technological change that in postwar Britain created administrative and clerical and middle-class jobs is now wiping them out, sending them overseas or downgrading them… Britain may once have been close to a property-owning democracy, but it is becoming a property-owning oligarchy.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Welfare programs working
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
June 28, 2010
Focus, a six-week program created in 2004 by Sarnia-Lambton’s Ontario Works office and recognized by the province as a “best practice,” is being adopted by other communities… Some 181 people have graduated from Focus so far, and after two years 68% have left social assistance for jobs, school, training or other reasons… “We’re tying to provide all the human services we can to help move people to the goals they have in being able to be self-sufficient,” Dalziel said. “We want to do all we can to help the whole situation and not just hand out a monthly cheque.”
Tags: participation, poverty
Posted in Social Security Debates | No Comments »
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