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Media & Policy News: 12 September 2013

September 13, 2013

Top Stories

Good social policy can make a big difference:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/11/national_household_survey_2011_ontario_making_progress_fighting_poverty.html

More information on household income:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/11/household_stats_give_jolt_to_great_canadian_dream.html

A snapshot of Canadians:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/who-are-the-1-per-cent-a-snapshot-of-what-canadians-earn/article14269972/#dashboard/follows/

The implications of the NHS and the data it presents:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/even-a-bad-survey-cannot-blind-us-to-income-inequality/article14251936/

A blurred look at housing:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/national-household-survey-provides-blurred-look-at-housing/article14271791/#dashboard/follows/

The ODSP Action Coalition writes to Minister McMeekin about differential social assistance rate increases this year:
http://www.odspaction.ca/story/2013-rate-increase-less-1-families-odsp

See ISAC’s fact sheets on social assistance changes here:
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=095b12c98935ecaadd327bf90&id=d33929d184&e=f67f28a7b9

Poverty Reduction Consultations

OCASI says consultations are an important opportunity to raise employment equity:
http://ocasi.org/shaping-conversation-poverty-reduction-ontario

Affordable transit should be a priority:
http://www.socialplanningtoronto.org/reports/making-transit-a-priority/

A toolkit and key messages from ISAC:
http://www.incomesecurity.org/ToolkitandKeyMessagesonPovertyReduction.htm

Upcoming community-organized consultation in Toronto:
http://wfcsept24-eorg.eventbrite.ca/

Other Ontario

Unifor supports the call for a $14 minimum wage:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/09/20130907-084311.html

Look who is lobbying to keep wages low:
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=8e3951a35d48e64f736884ea9&id=940cd595d0&e=3d13451e1e

Migrant workers win major victory; Ontario challenges decision:
http://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/09/06/province_challenges_ohip_coverage_to_injured_migrant_workers.html

The press release from Justicia on the challenge:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1453379

Tuition fees to increase by 13% in the next four years, and Ontario’s are the highest:
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/cost-university-education-rise-13-over-next-four-years-study

Ontario Works caseload numbers are down Bruce County:
http://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2013/09/06/bruce-social-assistance-numbers-down/

An editorial from Wawa on the value of exploring a guaranteed annual income:
http://www.wawa-news.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18803:the-scourge-of-poverty&catid=122:editorials&Itemid=157

Cool Stuff

Upcoming forum on youth unemployment in Toronto:
http://ofl.nationbuilder.com/youthunemployment

A great grassroots group in Halton called Voices for Change just released their annual report:
http://www.voicesforchange.ca/

National

The freeze on EI premiums leaves unemployed Canadians in the cold:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2013/09/09/ei-premium-freeze-leaves-unemployed-canadians-in-the-cold/

What some economists are saying about recent job growth data:
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/09/06/canada-job-growth-triples-forecasts-what-the-economists-say/

And what others are saying:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2013/09/06/part-time-growth-in-a-hamster-wheel-job-market/

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board just bought Neiman Marcus for $6 billion:
http://www.theprovince.com/business/Canada+Pension+Plan+bags+luxury+retailer+Neiman+Marcus/8891392/story.html

Canadians working longer but still don’t have enough to live on:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/national/Older+Canadians+fear+outliving+their+money/8898160/story.html

Canadians delaying their retirements:
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2013/09/11/canadian-retirement-being-delayed-longer-poll

International

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the birth of New Zealand’s welfare state:
http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/child-poverty-action-group-celebrate-birth-welfare-state/5/167270

“Employment per se has nothing to do with how heavily Americans rely on public benefits. Rather, the issue is wages.”
http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/col-welfares-not-work-issue-cato-wage-Issue.html

“A petty, cynical obfuscation” of the reasons referrals are made to UK food banks:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/patrick-butler-cuts-blog/2013/sep/06/welfare-cuts-trussell-trust-tale-of-two-food-banks-jobcentres

An interesting approach to poverty reduction in Kansas:
http://cjonline.com/news/2013-09-06/poverty-reduction-panel-pushes-education-stronger-marriages-welfare-reform

“Massive increases in child poverty” are now forecast after UK welfare cuts:
http://www.eastlothiannews.co.uk/news/scottish-headlines/cuts-will-increase-child-poverty-1-3080769

China working to create more income security:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-09/10/c_132709134.htm

“The only years with greater income inequality than 2012 were the two years before the Great Recession and the year before the Great Depression”:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/09/last-year-was-the-4th-best-year-ever-for-the-top-1-percent/279578/

Oxfam calls on European governments to end austerity:
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2013/09/11/cuts-poverty-threat-for-millions/

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