Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
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Northern youth just fodder for Tories’ campaign
When we involve youth, especially under-privileged youth, in a national defence agenda, we tell them that their primary value to Canada is as watchdogs and little else… Why focus so intently on the military contribution these kids can provide? Why not focus on the social value?… a primarily social good that is of benefit to under-privileged youth in communities where not nearly enough of Canada’s bounty is invested just doesn’t play to the Conservative party’s base.
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, poverty, youth
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The Swedish sex-work model is a success
… the Swedish model – because it targets buyers rather than sellers – curbs the demand for purchased sex, which is the key driver behind sex trafficking… While punishing only buyers and not sellers of sex is the right approach, it is apparent that we have not provided enough assistance to individuals in prostitution in terms of housing, education, health care and a way out of the sex industry… After all, the purpose of the model is to protect vulnerable individuals
Tags: crime prevention, globalization, Health, ideology, immigration, poverty, rights, women
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Ontario justice system ‘punishes’ mental illness
The 1960s deinstitutionalization movement arose out of the belief that patients would be better served in the community, but it led to the mass closure of psychiatric beds without a corresponding investment in social supports such as housing and mental health treatment. The movement spurred a troubling and unintended consequence: an increase in encounters between the mentally ill and police… Now jails have replaced asylums as repositories for people who don’t have adequate resources to cope with community living
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, featured, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Child & Family Delivery System | 3 Comments »
What I learned as a medical student working with low-income families
… 146,000 children are growing up in low-income families in Toronto. They face higher risks for almost every kind of illness and disease… When a doctor regularly meets patients who face poverty, food insecurity, lack of safe housing, and psycho-social stressors, it reinforces the necessity to ask about their social and living conditions. We don’t know unless we ask. And we don’t ask unless we understand the reality of those living in poverty.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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At last, a success story at Toronto Community Housing
… the building, with 132 bachelor apartments housing almost exclusively single men, many of whom struggle with addictions and mental health problems, is now a bright example of turnaround tactics.
The reversal of fortune was fueled in part by the agency spending $719,000 on repairs and maintenance and hiring a security guard and cleaner… But what really changed things for the better was having two social service agencies set up in the lobby…
Tags: budget, crime prevention, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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‘Quality child care all families can afford’
Leaving child care to the market fails us all in three key ways. Sky-high parent fees are one part of the problem, but so too are a lack of quality spaces where they are most needed and low wages for child-care workers… Canada has some of the lowest child-care access rates in the industrialized world, with regulated spaces for fewer than 20 per cent of children; parents’ fees are among the highest in the world… and quality is constantly undermined by low wages and poor retention rates for college-trained early childhood educators.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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The folly of universal childcare
Publicly provided daycare is often compared to health insurance and K-12 education, but they have nothing in common… it’s hard to see how the public good argument for K-12 can be extended to daycare. There’s certainly evidence suggesting that early childhood education can offer significant benefits for children from high-risk families. But there’s little reason to believe that these results can be extended to all children, and some reason to think the opposite is true.
Tags: child care, ideology, participation, poverty
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Helping students, without burdening everyone else
Student loans are usually tied to financial need, in order to make post-secondary education available to the greatest number of people. But this isn’t a good argument for removing the obligation for students to pay the money back. At least with a loan, the liability is funded, even if that money takes time to come back to government coffers… if non-repayable grants become an expectation of government, there will be pressure for all provinces to provide them, including ones that cannot afford to do so.
Tags: budget, ideology, poverty, tax, youth
Posted in Education Debates | 1 Comment »
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