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National initiative seeks to connect youth who experienced homelessness to 180 jobs by end of 2016
HireUp — recognized as the first program of its kind — will function like Workopolis, inviting employers to post available positions on its online website. Partnering social agencies specializing in homeless youth will then submit the resumes of candidates — most of whom have no previous work experience — they feel are ready to enter the workforce. The program is aiming to help connect homeless youth to 180 full-time jobs — and a slew of part-time jobs
Tags: homelessness, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Pharmacare should be at the top of Trudeau’s agenda
National standards for universal coverage of medically necessary prescription drugs would… satisfy a central goal of pharmaceutical policy: ensuring all Canadians have equitable access to necessary care. Instituting such standards would bring Canada up to par in the developed world. Guided by best available evidence, such coverage would also foster safer, more appropriate use of medicines – potentially making Canada a world leader in the quality of medicine use… [it is] not only the ethical thing to do, it can also be the economically responsible thing to do.
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Six actions G20 countries must take to grow the economy inclusively
If we are to grow inclusively, the G20 member countries must: – Combat tax havens; – Enforce the corruption of foreign officials act; – Prevent transfer pricing; – Ensure that royalty payments are transparent; – Require that impact-benefit agreements underpin business licensing; and – Fairly tax corporations in the countries where their activities take place and value is created… governments will lose their legitimacy if they fail to close the loopholes and enact preventative legislation… [But] the funds needed to implement inclusive growth are available.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Don’t Reward Corporations for Donating Food Waste, Critic Says
The National Zero Waste Council — an organization whose membership includes local governments, businesses and non-profits — wants municipal governments to pass motions urging the Canadian government to create a tax incentive “for food producers, suppliers and retailers to donate unsold edible food.”… Some 40 per cent of the food produced in Canada gets wasted — about $31 billion worth of food, and enough of it is edible to provide 300 million meals, according to the council’s estimates.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, tax
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Agenda includes national poverty plan
… a new health accord with the provinces and territories… annual funding increases for First Nations programs… invest in improving the quality of on-reserve education… consultations to set up a National Early Learning and Childcare Framework… [for] affordable, high-quality, flexible and fully inclusive child care… boost federal spending on affordable and seniors’ housing… reforming the Employment Insurance system… expanding the Canada Student Grant for low-income students
Tags: budget, child care, featured, Health, housing, Indigenous, poverty, youth
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Tall order for Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Balance the budget in 2019-20 while “continuing to reduce the federal debt-to-GDP ratio throughout our mandate.” / Implement a promised middle-class tax cut by raising taxes on those earning more than $200,000. / Cancel “income-splitting” for families while retaining it for seniors / Bring in a new and enhanced Canada Child benefit / Enhance” the Canada Pension Plan / Mount a massive 10-year infrastructure program / pare back the Conservatives’ boutique tax credits…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, pensions, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Hiring portal aims to connect once-homeless youth with job opportunities
We asked ourselves how we could best use our combined assets to help more young people find employment… The result is HireUp – Canada’s first national hiring portal that connects employers with youth-serving organizations across Canada. Through the portal, Canadian employers gain access to the skills and talents of young people who have previously spent time on the streets and have now completed job skills training programs to fully prepare them for the workplace.
Tags: economy, homelessness, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Integrate intellectually delayed into the real workforce
… as many as 35,000 intellectually delayed people across the country may be working in jobs where they are paid minimum amounts, as little as 46 cents an hour, in sheltered workshops, co-ops, or social enterprises. There has to be a better way. These programs, in which people can toil for decades in isolated shops, should be a thing of the past. As much as possible, their workers should be integrated into paying jobs in the community at large.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canada finally has a minister of social justice
The new prime minister’s message was clear: Supporting families – lifting them out of poverty, helping them find affordable housing, getting them into the workforce and improving their children’s life chances – is a stand-alone job, one that remains at the top of his agenda… Duclos founded the Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network. He served as a page in the House of Commons under Pierre Trudeau and joined Canada World Youth, an international organization than trains volunteers 15-to-35 to be community workers at home and abroad.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, disabilities, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, participation, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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