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Income growth for Canadian middle-class families lags behind other groups: report
The lower wage growth for middle-class workers can be attributed partly to technological changes that have increased the demand for skilled workers… For the average male worker, the median annual wage has declined 19 per cent in real terms from 1976 to 1996 (from $42,000 to $34,000), before rebounding by only two per cent from 1996 to 2010. However, the median annual wage for women has steadily increased by 28 per cent from 1976 to 2010 as more women entered the workforce.
Tags: economy, globalization, standard of living, women
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Lessons from Ontario’s campaign to cut child poverty
the past strategy provides five important lessons. The first is that setting targets matters… The second lesson is that public engagement matters… Third, there are no silver bullets when it comes to complex issues such as poverty… Fourth, good social policy makes all the difference… Lastly, when it comes to investments, you only get out of it as much as you put in… The most important lesson of all is that building dignity and opportunity for all cannot stop at words and aspirations.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Don’t ignore the real issue on prostitution
Swedish legislators started from the premise that prostitution is only and ever a form of sexual violence and exploitation of vulnerable women, men and children. Rather than try to manage or control prostitution, they determined to abolish it, establishing legal and social measures that take aim at the roots of sexual exploitation… Targeting the demand has been demonstrated to be the most effective means of reducing rates of prostitution and sex trafficking.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, rights, women, youth
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Save EI system
… the Social Security Tribunal, which came into operation on 1 April, will handle appeals regarding EI, the Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security decisions. The amalgamation of these administrative bodies is supposed to create a streamlined, agile, appeal process by creating a single point of contact for submitting appeals. While the new system was introduced to make the appeal process simpler, it remains to be seen how a staff reduced from 1,000 to roughly 74 can be more efficient, especially when there nearly 10,000 appeals outstanding in the system.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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… the Nurse-Family Partnership…
Two Ontario ministries turned away a social program for at-risk mothers so grounded in evidence it went on to unite Democrats and Republicans south of the border… adopted in at least 42 American states… By targeting first-time mothers and appealing to their instinct to help their children, the program steered many away from a path of abuse, drug-use, unemployment and crime — changes that saved so much money it appealed to conservatives too.
Tags: budget, child care, Health, ideology, standard of living, women
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Homeless single mothers equipped for a new life
Four years ago, these graduates were living in women’s shelters, hiding behind false names, not daring to think about the future. Today, they are working in banks, law offices, high-tech firms or Woodgreen’s network of early learning centres. Their salaries range from $35,000 to $55,000. Their lives have structure and purpose.
Tags: child care, homelessness, philanthropy, poverty, standard of living, women
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Tories gear up for (historical) war
In the 1990s, a war raged. Known as the “history wars,” scholars argued over appropriate subject matter and methods for understanding the past. In Canada, one side of this debate believed that the past should focus on politics, economics and the military; the other side felt that the past was broader. Looking more at society and culture, they argued for a more nuanced understanding that included the contributions of women, immigrants, indigenous peoples and workers.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, women
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Political expediency trumps First Nations issues
Problems go unaddressed, and bureaucrats in Ottawa treat these communities with remote detachment. The solution, from the colonial office’s perspective, has been to blame the victims. This approach was made crystal clear when Prime Minister Harper, by denigrating sociology, scoffed at people who look for root causes and underlying reasons for social problems… In a world of simple solutions… we find that First Nations issues are ignored today while the government’s ideological agenda and appeal to the Conservative party’s base forms its aboriginal policy.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, rights, women
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Ontario’s gender pay gap inspires call for Equal Pay Day
Apr 09 2013
Ontario’s Equal Pay Coalition… is… calling on Premier Kathleen Wynne to declare April 9 Equal Pay Day to raise awareness and work to close the province’s 28-per-cent gender pay gap. (On average, a woman makes 72 cents for every dollar a man earns.)… women still have to work an additional 13 years to earn the same pay as men earn by age 65,”… Since 60 per cent of minimum wage earners are women, “a minimum wage increase would be an instant down-payment on pay equity,”
Tags: ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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UN report is a wake-up call for complacent Canada
Mar 18 2013
Canada is being bypassed by other countries (Japan and Ireland) in terms of its substantive quality of overall life; northern Europe still rules the roost. We are now down to 11th in the global rankings, far behind the United States at third. Indeed, if the effects of inequality are factored in, then Canada drops to 15th (and the United States drops to 16th).
Tags: child care, featured, Health, mental Health, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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