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We “low income” should be CELEBRATING the $11.13 increase we SO KINDLY RECEIVED from our new government on our “baby bonus” Right?
YEAH, BECAUSE A raise of $11 month will REALLY CHANGE MY Quality of Life!… 🎊🍾🥳🍻🎉 I decided I’m going from a “beer budget to a
YEAH, BECAUSE A raise of $11 month will REALLY CHANGE MY Quality of Life!… 🎊🍾🥳🍻🎉 I decided I’m going from a “beer budget to a
champagne diet” & write letters of thanks🤦🏻♀️! DONT give us what we need, give us JUST Enuff to make U look good & feel better about ur policies, but we’re still ‘perishing from a systematic disease’ & ur still making us ‘BEG 4 Bandaids?’🤦🏻♀️AFFORDABLE HOUSING FIRST!#HaltonHousing
4 ME personally, I have 15-25YRS MAX left in my lifetime. I DONT CARE what happens to ME! I care ONLY about my #CHILDREN having a CHANCE @ successful life, to #BreakTheCycle of #Poverty & Statistics. I just want to THRIVE in a #HOME, that can bring THEM #HOPE 4 THEIR #generation
Some thoughts:
1) If raising the rates is an interim measure towards a #UBI #GLBI, fine. But #OW and #ODSP are riddled with barriers and were not meant to create a living wage.
1) If raising the rates is an interim measure towards a #UBI #GLBI, fine. But #OW and #ODSP are riddled with barriers and were not meant to create a living wage.
What do I mean? Well the #OW Act of 1997 defines ‘assistance’ as “life stabilization assistance and basic financial assistance” - no matter how you look at it, stabilization =/= thriving, living, equitable. It’s an interim fix to a structural failure.
Our research showed that 59% of households relying on social assistance in Ontario (#OW/#ODSP) were food-insecure before the pandemic. @ODSPAction #ODSPoverty
@TheAgenda recently reported on the increased difficulty of making ends meet amid the pandemic & rising inflation. (1/6)
@TheAgenda recently reported on the increased difficulty of making ends meet amid the pandemic & rising inflation. (1/6)
📺 @mr_lois_lane and @JeyanTVO discussed how ODSP rates are inadequate for meeting basic needs and have gotten worse as they haven’t kept up with inflation or increased at all since 2018 (2/6)
They also highlighted important research by @MacLabour @stephross_mac @PGraefe, showing that half of those on #OW/#ODSPH went days without food during the pandemic. From: labourstudies.mcmaster.ca/research/impac… (3/6)
Ottawa is advising provinces not to claw back Canada Emergency Response Benefits from people on social assistance who have lost low-wage work due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Carla Qualtrough, fed. minister for employment, workforce devop't & disability inclusion, has “raised with her counterparts the importance of ensuring the CERB & prov'l & territoriall soc assistance progs work together to support Cdns..
..& that those Cdns who are receiving the CERB aren't penalized,” a spokesperson for the minister said Mon.
Yesterday I spoke to Ontario's Standing Committee on Finance as part of #ONBudget2019 consultations. Told them: 1) Raise shamefully low #OW & #ODSP rates to help people and to stimulate local economies. 1/12
A single person on #OW gets on $733 in basic benefits per month. A single on #ODSP gets $1169. Avg rent for 1BR in Ottawa is $1023. Barrie, $1035. Peterborough, $850. Health Food Basket in Ottawa is $244. Waterloo, $280. TBay, $233. You get my point. 2/12
People on OW & ODSP are unable to pay for what they need. They live far below the poverty line. They live in substandard, dangerous housing. They rely on food banks & other charities. Or they go without. Increasing rates is the right thing to do. And it's smart economically. 3/12
