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Alternative Federal Budget 2016: Time To Move On
Time To Move On proves that we can fight climate change and create jobs at the same time, that we can reduce poverty and grow the economy responsibly, and that there is more than enough fiscal room to ensure that everyone can have a better future… This year’s AFB delivers a plan that would lift 1.1 million Canadians out of poverty, reduce income inequality, boost economic growth, and, at its peak, result in 520,000 new jobs, bringing Canada’s unemployment rate to 6.0%.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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UN Tells Canada to Clean Up Its Act on Inequality, Social Rights
The 11-page document lists some positive developments, but overall lambastes Canada for its treatment of temporary foreign workers as well as women’s rights. It notes that Canadian women are still over-represented in part-time and low-paid work, and repeatedly cites failures regarding Indigenous people and African Canadians and the social disparities they face… Canada does not have a justice system that allows its citizen to fight for social rights.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Instead of offering free tuition for some, change when and how all students pay for university
For many students, the impact of the fees will be felt only in the years after they graduate, when it comes time to repay their student loans… Reform efforts, then, should be focused less on reducing fees — indeed, as the primary beneficiaries of higher education, students ought reasonably to bear the full cost themselves — than on changing when and how students pay them. There’s no particular reason why students should have to pay anything up front, at the time they are in school.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Ontario budget leaves Ontario’s poorest children behind
There was no money for affordable child care… There was no money for Ontario’s 47 children’s aid societies… There was a miserable 1.5-per-cent increase in social assistance rates for Ontario’s poorest families… There was no funding to alleviate the massive backlog in the province’s courts… it is hard to square Sousa’s talk about “a more compassionate Ontario” with the fact that 550,000 children in this province live in poverty.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Ontario to end clawback of child support for parents on welfare
Several options are under consideration to ensure parents who receive child support can benefit from more of this income… The change would be in place by April 2017 at the latest… While the government contemplates transforming income security, welfare and disability benefits for more than 907,000 Ontarians will rise by a modest 1.5 per cent this year… Sousa announced an additional $178 million over the next three years to increase affordable housing.
Tags: budget, disabilities, featured, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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