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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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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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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: Poverty Reduction Mandate
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. September 29, 2014. On September 25, 2014, the Government of Kathleen Wynne made public the Mandate letters. Given to each Cabinet Minister. Mandate letters outline key priorities for each Minister. Deb Matthews has been appointed President of the Treasury Board. She has also been named Minister Responsible for leading Ontario's second Poverty Reduction Strategy. PRS) Here are the instructions to Minister Matthews related to the PRS. Continuing to call on the federa...
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: Targets, timelines and tracking progress on poverty reduction and ending homelessness
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. October 1, 2014. Targets, timelines and tracking progress on poverty reduction and ending homelessness. This blog post has also been published as a contribution to the online dialogue ON Poverty Reduction - Strategy at Work. The need for clear targets and timelines for poverty reduction strategies was identified by the National Council of Welfare as the first cornerstone in their 2007 report, Solving Poverty. Set benchmarks (i.e., intermediate targets) corre...With ...
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: June 2015
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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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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: February 2014
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. February 13, 2014. Gifts of Warmth for Circle of Friends. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A blog in association with. Gifts of Warmth for Circle of Friends. Check Out These Sites. 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction. Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition. Income Security Advocacy Centre. Citizens for Public Justice. We are moving sites! Picture Window template. Powered by Blogger.
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: June 2014
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. June 2, 2014. Who has the best plan to lift people out of poverty in Ontario? May 6, 2009 was a memorable and uplifting day for me. And it happened in the Ontario legislature. The Ontario legislature is not usually a place associated with uplifting memories. More often it’s a place known for acrimonious debate and other antics. But on that memorable day, I was sitting in the balcony and watching the vote for third reading of the Poverty Reduction Act. On that memora...
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario: Living Wage Waterloo Region
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Advocating for a Poverty Free Ontario. June 4, 2015. Living Wage Waterloo Region. I have taken an extended hiatus from blogging. To get started again, I decided to share some material I have written for Living Wage Waterloo Region. Living Wage Waterloo Region launched on November 4, 2014, at the MCCO offices in Kitchener. Living wage is an issue that has interested me for years. In fact, I was looking back at a couple posts I wrote for this blog several years back that looked at biblical stories.