For Immediate Release: May 2, 2013 Budget commitments a start… Poverty Reduction must remain the priority. Several poverty-related measures were announced in today’s Ontario budget: including increasing social assistance rates by 1% (as well as an additional $14 monthly increase for singles on Ontario Works) and increasing earnings exemptions for those on social assistance that [...]
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Ontario Communities Unite!
Category: Social Assistance Reform
Join us in Hamilton on December 14th and let’s reverse the cuts to community start up benefits! The Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction and Hamilton Organizing for Poverty Elimination (HOPE) are asking communities and provincial organizations to meet, strategize and mobilize in response to the provincial government’s cuts to Community Start Up & Maintenance Benefits [...]
[read more]Commission for the Review of Social Assistance Final Report
Category: Social Assistance Reform
A Media Statement responding to the Commission’s Report, released today, can be found here.
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Are cuts coming to Hamilton’s programs to prevent homelessness? Find out more and take Action.. Information Session: Community Start Up Benefits cuts – Information Session Backgrounder: 2012 Cuts to the Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefits
[read more]Right to An Adequate Standard of Living
Category: Social Assistance Reform
On June 7th, the Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, Hamilton Community Legal Clinic and McMaster Poverty Initiative co-hosted a forum on the Right to An Adequate Standard of Living. Watch excerpts from the presentation here Article 25. of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states… (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living [...]
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