Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2015
CAS officials failed to make mandatory checks of the Ontario Child Abuse Register to examine the prior history of individuals involved with the kids… Some societies didn’t screen for the presence of domestic violence in a child’s family, or even examine their own records… A survey of closed cases that had to be reopened found almost half involved the same risk factors that led to the CAS being summoned in the first place… A thorough housecleaning is in order.
Tags: budget, child care, crime prevention, Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
Poverty and inequality are often treated interchangeably in public debate but in fact are quite different things. Rising poverty generally has not been the source of the recent rise in inequality… the rich may have been getting richer, and the super-rich super-richer, but in most places the poor have not been getting poorer. Despite the widespread uplift, however, acute misery is hardly unknown in our societies. But its source is not growth at the top of the income distribution but deprivation and desperation at the bottom.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Monday, November 30th, 2015
Inequality is also a trap — not a trap anyone has set for us but one of our own making — because concern with it leads us to focus on the top end of the income distribution when our preoccupation should instead be the bottom, where the bulk of human misery almost certainly resides.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Friday, November 27th, 2015
The new federal government’s pledge to implement the Canada Child Benefit while eliminating the Universal Child Care Benefit and the Canada child tax credit is predicted to help Ontario exceed its child poverty reduction target ahead of schedule. Ontario will need its federal partner to do some of the heavy lifting when it comes to ending chronic homelessness and expanding affordable housing units as well.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, homelessness, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
The Canada Social Report provides information that includes, but goes well beyond, Census-based data. The Welfare Incomes, Social Assistance Summaries, Social Policy Record and Minimum Wage sections are prime examples. This paper describes the current content of the Canada Social Report… It is a resource for the entire social sector – to give all of us a strong voice and a powerful evidence base for informed policy conversations and the formulation of intelligent policy solutions.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, homelessness, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
“Social assistance is simply too low” … half of the people on welfare or disability supports rely on food banks. “People are being as generous as they can be… but the government is relying on the goodwill and generosity of volunteers to do what the government needs to do.” There’s no dignity in it, there’s no health in it. They shouldn’t have to, not for food, in one of the wealthiest countries on earth.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
Every autumn for the past 30 years, the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC) has sent a delegation to Queen’s Park to ask the province’s political leaders to eliminate — not reduce — poverty. Two generations of legislators have nodded politely and done little… Matthews unveiled her government’s poverty reduction strategy seven years ago. Since then Ontario’s child poverty has climbed to 20 per cent from 15.2 per cent.
Tags: budget, featured, housing, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Thursday, November 26th, 2015
Despite growing concern for people trapped in “precarious work” — without job security, pensions or benefits — almost half of the 1 million staff employed by Ontario’s 55,000 non-profit organizations are serving part-time or on contract… Rather than judging non-profits according to how much — or how little — they spend on administration, it would make more sense to give increased weight to factors such as cost-of-living pay increases and provision of living wages for staff.
Tags: ideology, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2015
Campaign 2000 presents the latest statistics on child and family poverty and outlines how it impacts on multiple dimensions of children’s lives – including health, mental health, educational achievement and future employment opportunities… Key Findings… Child poverty has increased since 1989: from 15.8% to 19% today; 40% of Indigenous children live in poverty. 37% of children in poverty reside in households with full time, full year employment.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
… less than proud of the fact that 850,000 people need to access their services each and every month… HungerCount puts forward four broad policy recommendations: Create a basic income to replace provincial social assistance programs; Increase the availability of affordable housing; Invest in skills training for Canadians most at risk of failing in the labour market; Increase access to traditional foods and reduce the cost of store-bought foods in northern communities.
Tags: Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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