Top Story: “Welfare to Work”
Hudak releases PC’s white paper on social assistance
- White Paper: http://www.ontariopc.com/paths-to-prosperity/welfare-to-work/
- Press Release: http://www.ontariopc.com/news/paths-to-prosperity-welfare-to-work/
Coverage
Star picks up on proposed benefit reductions:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1316316–hudak-calls-for-shrinking-cheques-individual-employment-plans-for-welfare-recipients
- Same story in the Spec: http://www.thespec.com/news/ontario/article/871632–tim-hudak-calls-for-smaller-welfare-cheques-for-some-recipients
Globe focuses on proposed downloading:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-tories-want-to-download-disability-support-to-cities/article7454458/
- In another Globe story, Hudak’s position is used as a wedge: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/social-justice-fiscal-prudence-are-wynnes-watchwords-in-liberal-race/article7504817/
- And another Globe story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ontario-tories-would-reward-welfare-recipients-who-work-cut-benefits-for-those-who-dont/article7464301/
CTV: http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/tories-seek-to-overhaul-ontario-s-welfare-system-1.1118558
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/17/tim-hudak-ontario-tories-welfare_n_2496714.html
CHCH (note: video): http://chch.com/home/item/11213-hudak-puts-out-plan-to-get-welfare-recipients-working
Sun News: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/01/20130117-172339.html
- Toronto Sun: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/17/create-welfare-smart-card-that-can-only-be-used-for-food-hudak
- Also covered in the Kingston Whig Standard: http://www.thewhig.com/2013/01/17/create-welfare-smart-card-that-can-only-be-used-for-food-hudak
- Same “create welfare smart card for food” in all QMI local papers: Brantford Expositor, Brockville Recorder, Napanee Guide, Strathroy Age Dispatch, Chronicle Online, Shoreline Beacon, Thorold Edition, Barrys Bay This Week, Wallaceburg Courier Press, Norwich Gazette, Midland Free Press, Kingston This Week, Kenora Daily Miner and News, Seaforth Huron Expositor, Simcoe Reformer, Ingersoll Times, Orillia Packet, The Londoner, Sarnia This Week, Community Press, Goderich Signal Star, Bancroft This Week, Bradford Times, Lindsay Post, Midnorth Monitor, Delhi News Record, Kincardine News, Petrolia Topic, Sault This Week, Kapuskasing Times, Cochrane Times Post, Innisfil Examiner, Wiarton Echo, Frontenac This Week, Mitchell Advocate…
Toronto Sun – Wednesday’s story about merging OW and ODSP: http://www.strathroyagedispatch.com/2013/01/17/create-welfare-smart-card-that-can-only-be-used-for-food-hudak
- Also in the Owen Sound Sun Times: http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/2013/01/16/pcs-would-merge-welfare-disability-programs-hudak as well as St. Catherine’s Standard, Sudbury Star, Welland Tribune, Sault Star, Brockville Recorder, Brantford Expositor, Intelligencer, The Lindsay Post, Stratford Beacon Herald, Timmins Press…
Windsor Star: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/01/17/hudak-urges-welfare-clawback/
London Free Press: http://www.lfpress.com/2013/01/16/pcs-would-merge-welfare-disability-programs-hudak
London FM 96: http://www.fm96.com/channels/newsinfo/localnews/story.aspx?ID=1865777
Times-Colonist: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/national/tories-propose-to-reward-welfare-recipients-who-work-clawback-those-who-don-t-1.49842
Global Toronto:http://www.globaltoronto.com/tories+propose+to+reward+welfare+recipients+who+work+clawback+those+who+dont/6442790668/story.html
Metro Toronto: http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/513585/hudak-calls-for-individual-employment-plan-for-welfare-recipients/
Examiner.com (note, this is a video): http://www.examiner.com/article/ontario-pcs-suggest-imposing-debit-style-food-cards-welfare-system
Canoe news: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2013/01/17/20504106.html
Canadian Charger: http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=931
‘Trapped in a Whirlpool’ blog: http://trappedinawhirlpool.blogspot.ca/2013/01/hudaks-lethal-war-on-our-most-vulnerable.html
Other (But Not Unrelated) News
In Australia, “welfare cuts to lone parents will not help them find work”:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/welfare-cuts-to-lone-parents-will-not-help-them-find-work-20130116-2ctp0.html
Tennessee Republican Senator wants welfare recipients prohibited from buying alcohol:
http://www.marshalltribune.com/story/1931703.html
UK MPP raises “welfare cash card” idea to prevent purchases of “luxury items” like cigarettes and alcohol:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/21/welfare-cash-cards-spying-website
Landlords’ group in Niagara County, NY, want welfare shelter payments paid directly to them:
http://tonawanda-news.com/local/x1746079695/Stricter-controls-on-welfare-benefits-urged
Michigan institutes new 3-week “work readiness assessment” waiting period:
- http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121219/POLITICS02/212190405/1361/Michigan-details-new-program-for-welfare-applicants
- http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/cash_assistance_welfare_michig.html
UK saves money by capping welfare benefits – perhaps for 6 years:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251844/Tories-pledge-cap-rises-welfare-SIX-years-win-election.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
The State of Georgia’s war on the poor:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/12/georgia_s_war_against_the_poor_the_southern_state_is_emptying_its_welfare.html
David Cameron’s New Year’s address includes no backing down on benefit reforms:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9770922/David-Cameron-well-help-the-strivers-not-welfare-claimants.html
From Ian Duncan Smith – UK welfare transfers “increase dependency” and “push public finances to the breaking point”:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9772131/Iain-Duncan-Smith-weve-brought-back-fairness-to-welfare.html
And meanwhile, more homeless people died on Toronto’s streets last year than in the past five years:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1316515–34-homeless-die-in-toronto-in-2012-the-most-in-five-years