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Root causes of inequality and poverty

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To monitor and inform on cross-Ontario activity on the poverty reduction agenda. Put Food In The Budget. Do The Math Reports. Root causes of inequality and poverty. Posted at December 10, 2010. Response to Toronto Star editorial. Re: Welfare Reform: Breaking the cycle of poverty, Editorial, Dec. 4. Picked up as the title of its lead editorial. It is misleading to suggest that intergenerational poverty is the primary source of poverty in Ontario and Canada. Research evidence is clear that, compared to...

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: Living Wage Employers Improving Job Quality in Waterloo Region

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. June 10, 2015. Living Wage Employers Improving Job Quality in Waterloo Region. A recent report from CIBC. Raised an alarm on declining job quality in Canada. More jobs that pay low wages are undermining Canada’s economy. The trend also makes income inequality worse. It does not have to be that way. In Waterloo Region, there are employers who are working to reverse that downward trend. Since the launch of Living Wage Waterloo Region. The Living Wage Employers Program.

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Resources - On Poverty Reduction

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Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Poverty Reduction Strategies Around the World. Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy. Poverty Reduction Strategies Around the World. Here you find the resources created by the On Poverty Reduction research team as well as links to other resources relevant for poverty reduction in Ontario, Canada, and internationally. For suggestions of this resources page please contact us. On Poverty Reduction – Strategy at Work. Timelines (published online in May 2015):. This resear...

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: January 2014

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. January 22, 2014. The importance of speaking up. The community got a win at Waterloo Regional Council's budget meeting last week (January 15, 2014). Council voted to invest an additional $1 million in the discretionary benefits program. And it is a credit both the Councillors and to the many community people who came out to speak in favour of putting money into that program. Wayne Porty, a Pastor from Waterloo Mennonite Brethren Church spoke. Wayne administers t...

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: December 2013

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. December 5, 2013. Ontario Needs a Bold New Poverty Reduction Strategy. December 4, 2013 marked the 5th anniversary of Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy. To mark the occasion, I co-authored an article with Sarah Blackstock of the YWCA Toronto. The article appeared on-line in the Star. In it we assess what has worked in the first PRS and where we need to go in the next Strategy, which is due now - or at least before the end of March. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: April 2014

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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. April 16, 2014. Putting Teeth in Ontario's Second Poverty Reduction Strategy. The Wynne Government has yet to release Ontario's Second Poverty Reduction Strategy. But there are some things we know will be in it and some things we can hope will be. Dental care for low income households will be in the strategy. The fifth annual progress report. This builds upon two things in the first PRS. One was the expansion of the Children in Need of Treatment (CINOT). In 2012, r ...

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Ressources | Social Development Council

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Http:/ www.campaign2000.ca/reportCards/national/2009EnglishC2000NationalReportCard.pdf. Http:/ www.mcss.gov.on.ca/documents/en/mcss/publications/social/sarac%20report/SARAC%20Report%20-%20FINAL.pdf. Http:/ wellesleyinstitute.com/files/povertyismakingussick.pdf. Http:/ www.eohu.ca/ files/reports/report35.pdf. Http:/ www.povertywatchontario.ca. Http:/ www.children.gov.on.ca. Http:/ www.campaign2000.ca. Http:/ www.makepovertyhistory.ca. Http:/ www.gettingaheadnetwork.com. Http:/ www.oafb.ca.

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Healthy Public Policy | Association of Ontario Health Centres

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Skip to main content. Association of Ontario Health Centres. Association des centres de sante de l’Ontario. Ontario's voice for community-governed primary health care. AOHC advances health equity and healthy public policy by advocating for the elimination of systemic barriers to health. Our work on public policy is guided by two fundamental principles. Access to the highest attainable standard of health is a fundamental human right. AOHC Analysis of the 2016 Ontario Budget. Secure, affordable housing is ...