In this paper, we use intersectionality-based policy analysis (IBPA) to examine how COVID-19 income support policies enacted in Ontario, Canada, affected people living with poverty. We find that the privileging of formal labor market attachment in eligibility requirements systemically excluded ...
Many studies have identified that eligible claimants do not participate in means-tested income support programs. We examine the determinants of the decision to take-up social assistance in Canada using the 1997 Canadian Out of Employment Panel dataset. Using a conditional maximum likelihood approach ...
We are grateful to Human Resources Development Canada, Statistics Canada and SSHRC (Baker) for research support, Sue Biscope, Richard Dupuy, Leonard Landry and Garnett Picot for assistance accessing the data, Terence Yuen for excellent research assistance and to Paul Finn and participants in seminars...
″[T]here is no established common understanding” of UBI, according toeconomists Maura Francese and Delphine Prady. And therefore, “very different income-support programs are often labeled ‘universal basic income,’ even when they have little in common or do not aim at the same goal.” How...
What's the Difference in Canada Between Old Age Security (OAS) and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)? OAS and the CPP are both government-run pension programs in Canada. OAS is a universal pension that provides a monthly payment to eligible adults age 65 and older, whatever their work history...
We gratefully acknowledge financial support for this study from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Boyle McCauley Health Centre, Health Canada (Health Promotion and Programs Branch, Ontario), the United Way of Capital Region, and Edmonton ...
Proposals foruniversal basic income programsvary, but the most common one is a system in which the federal government sends out regular checks to everyone, regardless of their earnings or employment. Pilots of such programs are underway in Finland and Canada. In rural Kenya, a basic income is ...
1998. "Who Benefits from Canada's Income Security Programs?" Perception. 21 no. 4 http://www.ccsd.ca/perception/214/insite7.htmLochhead, Clarence (1998). "Who benefits from Canada's income Security programs?". Perception Magazine, 21(4), Ottawa: Canadian Council on Social Development....
Canada also traditionally spends about 1 percent of its GDP on workforce-development programs, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. That’s about half of the proportion in other advanced countries, but it still dwarfs the US figure, which is about 0.3 percent. ...
Since you are a citizen and resident of Canada, the gift tax doesn’t apply to you anyway. Reply Leana lorena October 25, 2017 I am married. Been renting out husbands grandmothers house for 6 years. She passed away. House is paid off but we still pay monthly rent to estate. Her ...