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Social Inclusion and Child and Family Poverty
Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
Risk and Opportunity: Creating Options for Vulnerable Workers
The final report in CPRN's research series on vulnerable workers has been released. Risk and Opportunity: Creating Options for Vulnerable Workers, by Ron Saunders, Director of CPRN's Work Network, provides a synthesis of the findings of six previous research studies, as well as other recent literature, with an emphasis on their implications for public policy.
Visit: www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm?doc+1371
Canadian Council on Social Development
Postponed Adulthood: Dealing with the new economic inequality
This paper is part of the Canadian Council on Social Development's New Social Architecture series. The project is designed to examine key social challenges facing Canada today and set out the number of strategic. This paper by John Myles examines the life courses of today's post-industrial cohorts and their children and the differences in their lives, as well as the risks presented to the 30 something's cohort.
Visit: www.ccsd.ca/pubs/2005/pa/pa.pdf
Can You Spare a Dime?
The Current State of Canadian Family Finances - 2005 Report
"Ottawa- More and more second-earners are entering the job market because they "have to" rather than because they "want to"? Vanier Institute of the Family have relesed a report outlining the current state of families and their need for extra cash just to stay afloat. The influx of these family members into the paid workforce has produced a record-number of dual-income families. According to the latest Current State of Canadian
Family Finances, families are now "cash-strapped". If you take out inflation, the typical worker now earns only 10 cents more per hour than they did in 1991. In addition, the time worked per week declined by about an hour and a half over the period."
www.vifamily.ca/library/cft/state05.pdf
Measuring Child Benefits: Measuring Child Poverty
This report by Michael Mendelson addresses two critical questions in social policy: what is child poverty and how much is an adequate child benefit? To answer these questions, the report proposes an analytic basis to distinguish between poverty among families with children and that element of their poverty that is properly understood as ‘child poverty. To view the report click here (pdf, 270K) [April 21, 2005]
This Issue of Reality Check: The Canadian Review of Wellbeing looks at the current trends of overwork, underwork, insecure work and the growing gap between the rich and the poor in Canada. Click here [January 25, 2005]
It's worth a look: The Canadian Council of Welfare Reports created this document which explicates on the situation of working poor families in Canada. Click here. [January 25, 2005]
Pathway to Progress: Structural Solutions to Address Child Poverty by Christa Freiler, Laurel Rothman and Pedro Barata in Campaign 2000 Policy Perspectives. Click here.
From Pleasure to Terror: Why Unexpected money is a problem for the poor
This report put out by St. Christopher House in Toronto, describes the difficulties faced by low-income adults when they encounter enexpected income. It supports assets based approaches to poverty reduction. To check the report go to www.stchrishouse.org/ Commutiy Making Social Policy/ From Pleasure to Terror [October 28, 2004]
Income Security for Working-age Adults in Ontario
This project was aimed at creating viable responses to the question of income securitiy in Ontario. The link provides access to all the reports that have ensured from the project. To check the report go to www.stchristopherhouse.org [October 28, 2004]
Poverty by Postal Code: The Geography of Neighbourhood Poverty
Have poverty rates increased in the GTA since 1980? Find out by reading the United Way's report of the geographic concentration of poverty in Toronto over the past two decades. Click here. [October 22, 2004]
Policy Responses for Groups at Risk of Long-term Poverty
This report by Cynthia Williams expands on the need to integrate perspectives such as 'social inclusion' into policy responses addressing the needs of groups at risk of long-term poverty. It provides a base from which policy-makers may be able to formulate and evaluate more holistic policy responses. Click here. [October 20, 2004]
"A Path to Poverty: A Review of Child and Family Poverty Conditions in British Columbia."
Michael Goldberg of the Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia and Andrea Long of SPARC BC are the co-authors of a special study commissioned by the BC Federation of Labour entitled "A Path to Poverty: A Review of Child and Family Poverty Conditions in British Columbia." Click here(pdf, 48.9 KB) [October 20, 2004]
Prospects for Young Families in Toronto [September 7, 2004]
The Prospects project is a collaborative research project of the Family Service Association of Toronto and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto. The goal of this project is to investigate how social and economic circumstances are having an impact on young families and to build support for public policies that can assist them. The project focuses on young families whose head(s) are under the age of 35.
The year-long project worked with young families, staff from community agencies, academics and others in generating strategies and solutions that can help young families in Toronto. Based on focus group research with a diversity of young parents, "Community Voices: Young Parents in Toronto Speak Out About Work, Community Services, and Family Life" documents the serious and growing challenges facing Toronto CITY's young families. "Falling Fortunes: Report on the Status of Young Families in Toronto," draws on census data to outline the precarious, and dramatically worsening, situation affecting young families. It examines the major economic and social trends that young families are facing and compares them to younger families over the past two decades. It also sets out recommendations for action calling for investments in income security programs and action to strengthenToronto CITY's community infrastructure of programs and supports.
Community Voices: Young Parents in Toronto Speak Out about Work, Community Services and Family Life. Click here. [September 7, 2004]
Lightman, Ernie with Andrew Mitchell and Dean Herd, Struggling to Survive: Ontario Works Recipients Talk About Life on Welfare. Ernie Lightman, Andrew Mitchell and Dean Herd, Social Assistance in the New Economy (SANE), 2003. The SANE project is a multi-year study following a panel of social assistance recipients in Toronto. This report relays the personal stories of 90 people who were on social assistance in Toronto in the Fall of 2001, providing analysis on preliminary research findings. Click here.
Falling Fortunes: A Report on the Status of Young Families in Toronto. For a full report in pdf click here. [September 7, 2004]
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