Top Stories
Armine Yalnizyan: Five years of economic recovery have been far from equal:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/five-years-of-economic-recovery-have-been-far-from-equal/article14403689/#dashboard/follows/
Chatham-Kent board of health says province must maintain its commitment to poverty reduction as a public health measure:
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2013/09/18/c-k-board-of-health-backs-sudbury-recommendation
Lots of media coverage for Sept 14 Day of Action to increase the minimum wage to $14 / hour – this Workers Action Centre email has news & links:
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b32b33961fd1e65272919d8a6&id=af851540a1&e=51059eb750
New child welfare bill will respect UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:
http://torontoist.com/2013/09/for-teens-frozen-out-of-ontarios-child-welfare-system-a-new-bill-offers-hope/
Op-Ed: Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/09/18/denying_health_coverage_to_injured_migrant_workers_is_shameful.html
1/3 of Canadians are not getting the mental health care they need:
- Star: http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2013/09/18/mental_health_care_needs_unmet_statistics_canada.html
- CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/mental-health-care-needed-by-1-in-6-canadians-1.1858867?cmp=rss
Wellesley asks: What do dirty diapers tell us about poverty?
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/news/what-soiled-diapers-tell-us-about-poverty/
Jim Stanford: With no engine for growth, we’ll be lucky to keep treading water:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2013/09/10/a-fine-balance-gdp-growth-by-sector-and-the-impact-of-austerity/
More on the National Household Survey
Canada Without Poverty, on last week’s poverty numbers:
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=389075e355b60ea9c8d3e4044&id=6a09fc2261&e=be99085c7f
Globe & Mail editorial calls on the feds to scrap the NHS and return to the Census:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/statscans-data-on-poverty-has-become-shaky/article14292754/#dashboard/follows/
“Because they changed the poverty measure, you can’t even compare the rankings,” said Sara Mayo of SPRC Hamilton:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4078804-hamilton-s-poverty-decline-misleading-expert-says
“Windsor isn’t necessarily poorer than other cities, but low-income residents are concentrated in certain areas”:
http://metronews.ca/news/windsor/793289/poverty-concentrated-in-downtown-windsor-statscan/
Good Stuff
Do you know about the Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council? If not, you should. (Read the TARP report!)
http://www.tassc.ca/
And another report you should read: Why Am I Poor? First Nations Child Poverty in Ontario:
http://www.beststart.org/resources/anti_poverty/pdf/WhyAmIPoor.pdf
Lots of good stuff from the CCPA:
http://e2.ma/message/9gtqe/1aru4
Broadbent Institute announces its new roster of fellows:
https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/en/blog/meet-broadbent-fellows
Around the Province
Kingston’s community services committee deals the living wage “a fatal blow”:
http://www.thewhig.com/2013/09/11/living-wage-dealt-fatal-blow
Northumberland Community Legal Clinic has created surveys for local people to use to share their views on poverty reduction and the minimum wage:
http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&type=user&func=display&sid=24238
Waterloo region’s OW caseload up only slightly in August:
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4080449-welfare-cases-up-slightly-in-august/
The new law school at Lakehead in Thunder Bay will open a legal aid clinic for people living on low incomes:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-law-school-promises-legal-aid-clinic-1.1358173
Toronto’s housing wait list grows to staggering 90,000+:
http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/housing/toronto-housing-wait-list-passes-90000-households-165723-people/
Across the Country
PEI commissioning a survey of migrant workers’ working conditions and treatment:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/migrant-worker-survey-commissioned-1.1307890
Housing makes the difference for Labrador woman forced to sleep in her car:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/relief-coming-for-labrador-woman-sleeping-in-car-1.1858886
National
Winnipeg Free Press editorial on EI premiums and political footballs:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/editorials/ei-premiums-political-football-223585191.html
Carol Goar on the embarrassment of riches that Flaherty is seeking to avoid:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/2013/09/18/jim_flahertys_ei_dilemma_goar.html
International
The King of the Netherlands has just declared the end of the welfare state in that country:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-king-willemalexander-declares-the-end-of-the-welfare-state-8822421.html
50,000 people in the UK facing eviction due to the Conservatives’ ‘bedroom tax’:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-50000-people-are-now-facing-eviction-after-bedroom-tax-8825074.html
The conditions for migrant workers in the UK:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/fruit-migrant-workers
“A mixture of fear and despair” about the impact of welfare reform in the UK: http://www.scotsman.com/news/welfare-reforms-generating-fear-among-carers-1-3090643
In the UK, “attitudes towards benefit claimants have become strikingly more sympathetic”:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/benefits-scroungers-british-social-attitudes
Latest census numbers show poverty in the US stuck at 15% for sixth straight year:
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-census-poverty-income-20130917,0,5330409.story
Full-day kindergarten rolls out in schools in Washington state:
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/09/15/3205096/wealth-poverty-and-state-all-day.html
Meanwhile, 18 states have high rates of welfare denial:
http://www.necn.com/09/16/13/In-Pa-requests-for-welfare-being-denied/landing_nation.html?&apID=937ad7580fd146f78caec1fa81e63101
25% of people in New Jersey are poor, and income inequality rises:
http://southbrunswick.patch.com/groups/new-jersey-news/p/7-of-middlesex-county-25-of-state-below-poverty-level-as-number-millionaires-increase
The impact of low wage jobs, and the challenge for American cities:
http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2021820267_nealpiercecolumnpovertywages15xml.html
Directions for welfare reform in Ireland:
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/joan-burton-refuses-rules-out-2275966
