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Monday, December 28th, 2015
Unusually for an economic policy, guaranteed income is popular on the economic left and right, on libertarian grounds, or for efficiency or institutionalized fairness… For Canada, it would be unusually dramatic. But as official policy of the ruling party, it is set to get a serious hearing.
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Thursday, December 24th, 2015
The child-support clawback… is so common and so cruel that it is being challenged in provincial legislatures and courtrooms across the country… The philosophy behind clawbacks seems to suggest welfare recipients deserve to live in poverty, that allowing them to keep child support payments would amount to cheating the system… The class action lawsuit says the welfare clawback discriminates against parents who are simply trying to support their children.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
Campaign 2000 is crudely measuring income inequality, not poverty. Statistics Canada explicitly considers LIM a measure of low income and not poverty… A more telling measure examines the ability of a household to afford basic needs such as food and housing… referred to as the basic needs poverty line (BNL)… the BNL shows that the child poverty rate has actually dropped by a third — down from 8.3 per cent in 1986
Tags: featured, ideology, poverty, youth
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Monday, December 21st, 2015
Ottawa and the provinces agreed that officials will start working right away on various options and the ministers will review that work early in the new year. A more formal meeting would take place in June to review the work again, which would set the stage for potential decisions when the finance ministers hold their annual December meeting… Reforming the CPP requires the support of Ottawa plus seven of the 10 provinces representing two thirds of the Canadian population.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Friday, December 18th, 2015
… Premier Kathleen Wynne must act immediately to follow up on the recommendation from the authors of an all-party legislative report on sexual violence and harassment that calls for the establishment of a police task force to fight human trafficking… Though trafficking for forced sex was outlawed in the Criminal Code of Canada in 2005, it was only last year that the first pimp in Toronto was convicted under that law… because of a lack of resources and… the political will to fight human trafficking for sex.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty, women, youth
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2015
Refugees are especially in need of de facto (and eventually legal) citizenship recognition… The most successful and non-controversial refugee groups are those that are transformed, as quickly as possible, into regular “economic” immigrants: If they’re included quickly in the employment, education and housing systems of the established immigrant community, they will be more likely to stabilize their lives, give up their temporary mindset and become valuable members of their communities.
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, immigration, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Friday, December 11th, 2015
Some 45-plus years after our group was launched out of a concern for senior citizens, there are still older adults who face poverty or are already living in poverty. Most of them are single and most of them are women… The CPP average amount as of July 2015 for new beneficiaries is $640.23; OAS maximum is $569.95 and GIS maximum for a single individual is $772.83. Total monthly income: $1,983.01. Or if one never paid into CPP… then the amount would be $1,342.78.
Tags: budget, pensions, poverty, standard of living, women
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
In 2014, welfare incomes for single employable households ranged from 38.2 percent of the after-tax poverty line in Manitoba to a ‘high’ of 64.7 percent in Newfoundland and Labrador. Most of the other jurisdictions cluster around the lower rate. Welfare incomes for single persons with disabilities, while low, were slightly higher, ranging from 49.6 percent of the poverty line in Alberta to 69.9 percent in Ontario.
Tags: budget, disabilities, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
A basic income is also popular with some socialists and do-gooders, who see in it the chance of eliminating poverty outright. But the very merits of a minimum income make it difficult to test… Will we really just be able to dismiss all the social workers, all the outreach agencies and urban homelessness fighters? That seems to be part of the idea in Finland, whose centre-right prime minister has talked of “simplifying the social security system.”
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
There are two important things to consider as we embark on this new path together. The first is the continuing cost of failing to right the wrongs of the past. The second is the tremendous benefit to be realized when Canada’s First Peoples enjoy the same quality of life as Canadians. The Centre for the Study of Living Standards found that, by 2026, closing the gap that exists between First Nations and Canadians could add as much as $400-billion to Canada’s economy and save $115-billion in social spending.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, rights, standard of living
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