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Creativity and Culture are alive and well | Gabe Sawhney

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Jane’s Walk Toronto picks. Toronto Budget “Hackathon”: Jul 20-21 →. Creativity and Culture are alive and well. May 2, 2013. This week I attended a salon (themed conversation plus dinner) on Canada’s creative future. It was sparked in part by a Globe op-ed from last year: Canada must refuel for cultural creativity. At the salon, we were specifically asked ‘how do we get the culture people and the technology people to work together? Creative Mornings: http:/ www.creativemornings.com. Lately I’m also ...

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Kids First Canada: Tax-Funded Daycare Lobbying

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Astro-turf Grassroots: How much we pay some top tax-funded child poverty/daycare lobbyists. In yet another egregious example of tax-funded lobbying for policies that discriminate against parental child care we have the $10/ day daycare " Generation Squeeze. Campaign run by Paul Kershaw and Lynelle Anderson through UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), which is very generously funded by the BC government. Kershaw is a sociologist. Despite his 6-figure salary. Current Issues and Action.

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Health | The Intergenerational Foundation

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NHS spending is weighted heavily towards the elderly, with 50% of the total budget going to the over-65s. This is perhaps not surprising, especially given that most of an average individual’s healthcare costs are incurred in their final years. The problem is demographic: the number of people aged 85-plus, currently about 1.3 million, is set to almost triple by 2035. Sign up for our quarterly newsletter. Tweets by @inter gen. IF can supply speakers and give presentations on our work.

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IF Film competition | The Intergenerational Foundation

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Employment | The Intergenerational Foundation

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Unemployment among 16-24 year olds in the UK doubled in the decade to 2012 to over 1.2 million, but has recently fallen back to 625,000 pre-financial crisis levels. But young people aged 16 24 are still three times more likely to be unemployed than the rest of the population 14.4% compared to 5.7% for the population as a whole. For school-leavers and graduates, the pressure to undertake no-pay internships has intensified, with a direct impact on social mobility as only the wealthy can work for free.

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Environment | The Intergenerational Foundation

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Intergenerational justice requires that the environment we pass on to our children and grandchildren meets their basic needs and allows for a reasonable level of wellbeing. IF sees these issues as central to its overall mission, and is working in partnership with the Alliance for Future Generations and other groups to build awareness and work for change. To read the Rio 20 submission paper. Argues that the removal of the 11 billion annual subsidy received by the UK aviation industry, through tax-free fue...

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Housing | The Intergenerational Foundation

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This is having a dramatic effect on society, as younger people put off settling down and starting families because they cannot afford to rent or buy the space required to bring up children. IF is actively researching possible solutions to the housing deadlock in order to free future generations from the burden of spending an unacceptably high proportion of their income on rents or mortgages. IF’s first paper on housing was Hoarding of Housing. Followed by Understanding Downsizing. Section of our website.

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Government Debt | The Intergenerational Foundation

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The government has official debts of about 1.56 trillion (approximately 58,000 for each UK household), but it also has other very real and very large liabilities. These include at least 1.3 trillion for the pensions of government employees and 3.8 trillion for the state pension scheme. These pension commitments are almost all unfunded meaning they are not paid out of some massive accumulated fund, but out of current-account taxes. Sign up for our quarterly newsletter. Tweets by @inter gen.

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Intergenerational Justice Review | The Intergenerational Foundation

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Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. Sign up for our quarterly newsletter. Tweets by @inter gen. IF can supply speakers and give presentations on our work. IF is pleased to be working with:. 2016 The Intergenerational Foundation, registered charity no. 1142230.

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Intergenerational Justice Review 2016 (2) | The Intergenerational Foundation

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Intergenerational Justice Review 2016 (2). Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS ISSUE HAS NOW PASSED. IGJR) has been published by the Stuttgart-based think tank the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG). Reflects this academic focus. Articles, submitted by senior academics and researchers in the field, are peer-reviewed and published only on the recommendation of two reviewers. From 2016, there will be two editions of the IGJR annually. That ...