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Welfare Reform in New Zealand: Lessons for Ontario?
November 1, 2011 by
Welfare reform has been on the agenda in New Zealand for some time, with both the previous Labour-led and current, more conservative National-led government Continue Reading…
If you had a disability, would you be able to work?
January 18, 2012 by
If you had a disability, would you be able to work? It’s a tough question, and you might say that it depends on the severity of the disability. That’s Continue Reading…
Reviewing Social Assistance in Ontario
November 23, 2011 by
In 2010, the province the established Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario, led by Commissioners Francis Lankin and Munir A. Sheikh. The Continue Reading…
How the Social Assistance System Causes Poor Health
November 24, 2011 by
Income and health are inextricably linked. It is well documented that people with low income more likely to have poor health, whether measured by self-reported Continue Reading…
Building a Social Assistance System that Enables Good Health for All: Start from a Powerful Vision
November 29, 2011 by
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been blogging about the submission to the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario that the Wellesley Continue Reading…
Can a basket of supports help to avoid poor health for people on social assistance?
December 7, 2011 by
My last blog about reforming social assistance in Ontario talked about building the vision of a health-enabling social assistance system. This was the Continue Reading…
Should social assistance help you to scrape by, or to get a good job?
January 3, 2012 by
Social assistance is about more than just providing enough money for people to survive. Social assistance should also work to ensure wider opportunities for Continue Reading…
Should social assistance ensure access to health care services, or keep people from getting sick? Both, actually.
January 24, 2012 by
The social assistance system causes poor health. The low levels of income supports combined with inadequate supplementary supports like affordable child care Continue Reading…
Fixing Social Assistance is all about Collaboration
January 31, 2012 by
Over the last couple of months I’ve blogged about reforming Ontario’s social assistance system, setting out the nature of the problem and suggesting some Continue Reading…
