Posts Tagged ‘budget’
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Ontario welfare changes far from being reforms
Sunday, January 27th, 2019
The government wants recipients of Ontario Works and ODSP to work. Curiously, it proposes substantially better financial incentives for people who are certified as disabled. On Ontario Works, the plan is to exempt the first $300 a month of earned income before any clawback, compared to the current $200. Beyond the basic exemption, the current clawback is 50 per cent. The proposal is to make it 75 per cent. That is an incentive to work?
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Students demand Ford government reverse course on OSAP changes
Sunday, January 27th, 2019
Nour Alideeb, the Ontario chair of the Canadian Federation of Students, said students from the lowest income families will bear the brunt of the cuts to grants. “Our message to the government is you messed with the wrong people,” she said. “We’re going to be here to make sure that you’re actually listening to the people, which are the students, and students want to see a reverse on the OSAP cuts but also public investments into our institutions.”
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty
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Removing caps on class sizes is a failure of both education and economics
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Research on the correlation between class size and student achievement… determined that children in classes with fewer than 20 students learn more, learn better and are less likely to fail… and that the investment required to maintain this ratio more than pays off in the reduction of remedial supports and student’s higher economic performance as adults… The educational case against the removal of caps is damning, but so too is the economic one.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living
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Pharmacare and Politics
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Rather than going for an expensive single-payer model, we think Ottawa would be far better off with a “gap-filling” model. Under that approach, each province and territory would create a public pharmacare plan that would automatically cover anyone who wasn’t already covered by an existing public plan, or by a government-approved private plan. As an inducement, the federal government could offer a modest enhancement of the Canada Health Transfer, or offer to pay part of the incremental cost that each province would incur by offering such a plan.
Tags: budget, economy, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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Hallway Medicine and Value-based Funding
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Fundamentally, the payment system is too complex and incoherent. This often creates perverse incentives and makes it difficult for policymakers to achieve desired outcomes… Value-based funding pays healthcare providers for outcomes, not for each siloed service individually… Competition based on value for money will allow the Ontario health system to do more with less.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology
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To Doug Ford, being “for the students” means reckless OSAP cuts
Thursday, January 24th, 2019
Doug Ford does not represent—nor does he care for—the students of Ontario. If he did, he would respect the need for adequate student spaces and student-led services, respect the autonomous structure of the student unions, and ensure Post-Secondary institutions have the funding needed to provide both the current and future students with high quality education and adequate resources on campus.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Tuition changes will hurt students, society, in the long run
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
Nobody I know in higher education resents the notion that students should pay less. The way to make this happen is to spread the cost of higher education investments over our broader tax base… at first blush the announcement seems positive: Tuition rates are going down! But a clear-eyed reading of the situation reveals these cuts do far more harm to students. The real goal is the government will spend far less on student grants — siphoning resources from an already underfunded system.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, standard of living, youth
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Ford fails to connect dots between the personal and the political
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
A million dollars of provincial funding that makes after-school activities possible in Toronto’s disadvantaged neighbourhoods has been cut… His government also cut a $3-million program to help young people with a developmental disability transition to adulthood… It’s a false economy… Doug Ford… can’t make the leap from wanting to help on a personal level to seeing the necessary role of government in assisting groups of people dealing with social problems.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Ford government cuts student aid under cover of tuition cuts
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
The government has no plans to compensate universities and colleges for the $440 million they will lose once the reduced tuition fees take effect. They’re on their own to figure that out… Ontario colleges… receive about $2,000 less per student from the government than those in other provinces. And universities have among the lowest levels of per-student funding in the country, while revenues from tuition and operating grants combined have been flat since 2010.
Tags: budget, ideology, participation, poverty
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‘Humans are suffering’: Axing of basic income pilot project leaves trail of broken dreams
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019
The Star and other media organizations have documented how participants have been able to eat healthier food, buy warm clothing, move into stable housing and enrol in college… In addition to the court challenge, mayors of the pilot communities, international researchers, the Hamilton and Thunder Bay Chambers of Commerce, 900 medical professionals and the CEOs of 120 Canadian companies have called on both Queen’s Park and Ottawa to continue the research project the remaining two years.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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