Charities can’t keep helping others if no one will help them
After three years of prolonged crisis even the helpers are burnt out.
‘We’ve had a change in minister but not a change in government’: disability groups look to new minister to keep pre-shuffle promises
Advocates say they supported the Canada Disability Benefit bill because they were promised ‘meaningful participation’ in the next stage, but aren’t sure they are going to get it.
Canada’s disability benefit is a step forward, but we still need a guaranteed basic income
In its current form, C-22 has mountains to climb before it can meaningfully address disability poverty. And on its own, it won’t be the stop-gap we need to address poverty.
Promised federal disability benefit could make ‘a huge dent’ in poverty rate if done right, say advocates
Bill C-22, which would create a framework for the Canada Disability Benefit, will be a House priority the week of June 12, says Government House Leader Mark Holland.
Qualtrough looks to leverage trust of disability community as Senate committee studies landmark benefit
Bill C-22 would create a major social program to address the high poverty rates for people with disabilities, but the ‘framework bill’ relies on not-yet-written regulations to do the heavy lifting.
This just in: high poverty rates and inequality are not inevitable
Disposable income inequality peaked in 2004. And the overall relative poverty rate, using a common international definition, peaked in 2015. Between 2004-2015, little progress was made in reducing disposable income inequality. But since 2015, there has been a remarkable reversal in these trends.
