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  • CCPA Review: Reducing Poverty Among the Single Non-Elderly Population of Manitoba

    Download 313.04 KB “This report shows that the single non-elderly poor in Manitoba experience the greatest depth of poverty yet receive the lowest per capita net transfers of any low income group.  Yet, this group receives the lowest level of income support from social assistance and is provided with minimal…

  • Nova Scotia budget invests in dribs and drabs while economy stagnates

    Yesterday, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Finance proudly stood up to table a tiny surplus, and to convince us that a stable economy is  good. However, stable is another word for stagnant. With no net job growth to speak of and very little economic growth, and with consumer spending flat; these…

  • New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, Innovation and Prosperity

    This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English and in French). What do the Occupy Movement and Canadian software giant OpenText have in common? Most…

  • The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia

    Download 759.83 KB34 pages The Nova Scotia Government’s 2009 Poverty Reduction Strategy sets out dual goals of reducing poverty and creating opportunities for prosperity. Inherent in this vision is an understanding that when we help those in need, we make Nova Scotia a better place to live for everyone. As…

  • Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words

    Or twenty thousand as the case may be. The CCPA published a number of major studies in recent years about BC’s unacceptably high levels of poverty and homelessness, as well as provincial welfare policies that contribute to hardship and homelessness. These issues are brought to life in a series of…

  • Will the BC government continue to ignore its own budget consultation?

    Every fall, BC conducts a month-long budget consultation process and for at least the last three years, the provincial government hasn’t acted on its own report. You have to wonder if they’re actually listening. This is a shame because the process generates a large number of good ideas and policy…

  • November 2008: Help the Poor To Help the Nation

    Poverty reduction is the best cure for an ailing economy Canadians are looking to their federal and provincial governments to protect them from the repercussions of the global financial credit crunch. Among the necessary measures our legislatures should take—perhaps even the most effective—would be a determined joint effort to reduce…

  • Fast Facts: He Had a Dream

    Fifty years ago today, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee. James Earl Ray was convicted, but as Angela Davis said, “Racism was Martin Luther King’s assassin.” King was a brilliant leader in the African-American struggle for freedom in America’s Deep South. His name will…

  • Fast Facts: Federal housing strategy key to improving child welfare

    Before the findings of the Hughes Commission report on the death of Phoenix Sinclair have been lost and forgotten and before the next child dies needlessly, we must all be reminded that there are more issues at play than the effectiveness of the Child Welfare System. The article “Broken Childhoods”…

  • 7 things that should be in this year’s BC Budget

    In the fifth year of a slow and largely jobless economic recovery, the 2014 BC Budget should prioritize measures to set the foundation of a more just and sustainable economy, where prosperity is shared by all citizens. Here are 7 initiatives that will get us there. 1. A comprehensive poverty…

  • Fast Facts: Community Development Manitoba – style

    For fashion trends the world looks to Milan; Copenhagen has become synonymous with urban planning; but for community development, Manitoba is increasingly the source for inspiration and cutting edge policy. Manitoba’s home-grown approach to community development is being studied by other cities looking for ways to deal with the complex…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)
    Growing Gap

    Set minimum wages above poverty line: Study

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. TORONTO – Not a single province in Canada pays a minimum wage that lifts working Canadians out of poverty, concludes a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Bringing Minimum Wages Above the Poverty Line shows that provincial governments have allowed the value of…