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Province
acknowledges progress in fight on poverty, but there is more to do: Mackintosh
$4.3
Million to Support Manitobans to Move Into Jobs, Increase Shelter Welfare Rates
May
6, 2008
"(...) Adding to the $27.6-million commitment made last year,
the extra $4.3 million in new Rewarding Work initiatives will help people with
disabilities, single parents and other low-income people"...
- includes
the following:
* Effective 07/08, increases to shelter rates and rooming house
rates directly from the Manitoba Shelter Benefit (see the link below)
* Effective
11/08, Rewarding Work Rent Allowance, a $50-per-month benefit to help non-disabled
single adults and couples without children pay their rent after they leave welfare
for work.
* Effective 02/09, Get Started! - a one-time benefit (ranging from
$175 to $325, depending on the case classification) will be paid to people who
leave welfare for work to help them pay for costs related to starting a new job.
*
Effective 12/08, the Rewarding Work Health Plan will be provided to single parents
and persons with disabilities who leave welfare for work; it extends coverage
for prescription drugs and dental and optical services for up to two full years
after people leave assistance.
(...)
Rewarding
Work is part of the provinces anti-poverty strategy
[bolding added], which includes Family Choices, Housing First and HOMEWorks,
substantially increased education funding, increases to the minimum wage and other
related measures to ensure that everyone can take advantage of the growing economy."
Rewarding
Work
Manitobas Rewarding Work is a four-year Manitoba strategy
to address poverty by giving people hope and dignity through employment. Rewarding
Work programs will provide benefits to low-income working families. They will
also help Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) [welfare] participants move from
EIA to work by increasing the advantages of employment over EIA.
Recommended reading:
Year
One Investments
- Rewarding Work investments in 2007/08 are helping
low-income Manitobans in three areas:
(incl. links to more detailed info on
the various initiatives)
* Helping low-income families (Manitoba Child Benefit,
Manitoba Child Care Program)
* Supporting people to move from welfare to work
(enhanced work incentives in the EIA program, new job seekers' allowance, a new
training and education policy to help Manitobans on EIA find permanent work, job
preparation, minimum wage subsidy for employers who hire and train people on EIA,
allowances for work-related costs for all employed EIA clients, mentorship program
for youth
* Improving benefits and services for persons with disabilities (marketAbilities,
marketAbilities fund, marketAbilities team, personal attendant community education
program, Sara Riel Inc. work placement force program, increase in financial assistance
from Income Assistance for Persons with Disabilities (IAPD)living in the community,
doubling of the EIA liquid asset exemptions for EIA clients with a disability
Year
Two
In the second year of the strategy, Rewarding Work will focus
on assisting people to prepare for and make a smooth transition from income assistance
to work.
Examples include an 18% shelter rate increase for non-disabled single
adults receiving EIA (starting 07/08), a monthly rent top-up for up to one year
(starting 11-08) for non-disabled single adults and childless couples who leave
income assistance for work and live in private rent, new one-time work startup
allowance (starting 02/09), drug, dental and optical benefits to be extended (starting
12/08) for 24 months (up from 12 months), and more to come...
Manitoba
Shelter Benefit (MSB)
The Manitoba Shelter Benefit (MSB) is a monthly
benefit to help low income seniors, families, and persons with disabilities pay
their rent. The benefit replaces the current Shelter Assistance for Elderly Renters
(SAFER) and Shelter Assistance for Family Renters (SAFFR) programs.
The MSB
helps three groups of people:
* families
* seniors
* persons with a
disability
Source:
Manitoba
Family Services and Housing
Related link from the CBC:
Manitoba
increases welfare shelter rates
May 6, 2008
For the first time
in 15 years, Manitoba is raising the shelter rates it gives to adults on social
assistance.
- the same news release includes: * Health benefits extended *
Poverty rates dropping, says government
"(...) The total number of Manitobans
living in poverty fell to 11.4 per cent in 2006 from 14.9 per cent in 1999.
Still,
Manitoba has the third-highest ranking in the country for poverty."
Source:
CBC
News
More What's New from Manitoba Family Services and Housing:
Province
Announces $1.8-million Boost For Manitobans Receiving 55 Plus Income Supplement
Changes
Mean More Money For Low-income Older Manitobans: Irvin-Ross
April 30,
2008
Low-income Manitobans 55 and over will see increases of up to 45 per cent
in their provincial income supplement to assist with living expenses, Healthy
Living Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross, minister responsible for seniors, announced
today.
- Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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Manitoba
Budget 2008 - Opportunity and Stability April
9, 2008 Budget
2008 Highlights Budget In Brief : Strong Families Source: Google Search
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Disability
Research Digest (Manitoba) |
Government of Manitoba Home Page
Page
d'accueil du Gouvernement
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une version en français de leur page. Cliquez sur "version française"
pour y accéder.
Répertoire
des ministères
Search
Manitoba Government Pages
Departmental
Index
Statutory Publications
Laws
and Regulations of Manitoba - Manitoba provincial laws and regulations
are available online for free.
This online service makes laws and regulations
accessible for reference, research and private use.
Human
Services Guide - contains information on services
provided by Manitoba Advanced Education; Manitoba Education, Training and Youth;
and Manitoba Family Services and
Housing. You can choose to browse the full
list or a list by service category (recommended), or do a keyword search.
This is an extensive list of programs and services, and it includes descriptions
and links to further information in the following areas: Adoption - Child day
care - Counselling - Emergency Assistance - Employment - Financial Assistance
- Housing - Parent and Caregiver Supports - Protection of Children and Adults
- Services for Employers - Supports for Adults with a Disability - Supports for
Children with a Disability - Training - and more.
Province
Hosts Round Table Meetings On Social Union Framework Agreement
Government
of Manitoba
September 13, 2002
"Manitobans are being encouraged to
be a part of a review of the Social Union Framework Agreement, which guides funding,
co-operation and action on key social programs such as health care, social services,
post-secondary education and training, and labour market development."
Full
Citizenship: A Manitoba Strategy on Disability (PDF - 8.1MB, 47 pages)
May 4, 2001
The White Paper, Full Citizenship: A Manitoba Strategy on Disability,
proposes a comprehensive provincial strategy on disability. It responds to recommendations
from the disabilities community in the areas of access to government, employment,
disability supports, services to Aboriginal persons with disabilities and income
supports. It further proposes measures to enhance government accountability for
access and inclusion of persons with disabilities.
Source:
Disabilities
Issues Office
In 2002, the Government of Manitoba established the Disabilities
Issues Office (DIO) to support and report to the Minister responsible for Persons
with Disabilities. The DIO works independently across government and acts as a
centerpiece for coordinating policy and programs for persons with disabilities.
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Manitoba
Family Services and Housing...........................version
française
"As a Department of
the government of Manitoba, we are committed to social, economic and labour market
inclusion for all citizens. We strive to ensure that people feel accepted, valued
and safe. We work with the community to support Manitoba's children, families
and individuals to achieve their fullest potential."
Use
the sitemap to see everything
on one page.
The home page contains links to all of the main areas of this
information-rich site.
For links to general information about the site and
the Department, start on the home page - it also includes links to Popular Topics
and Key Initiatives including child care, housing, welfare (Employment and Income
Assistance), Manitoba's Five-Year Plan for Child Care, the Affordable Housing
Initiative, Child and Family Services Restructuring, the Manitoba Provincial Strategy
on Disability, the National Child Benefit Restoration and more.
Annual reports of the Department of Family Services and Housing
Province
Fights Poverty With Jobs: Ministers
October 17, 2007
Rewarding
Work Invests $4.75 Million To Remove Barriers to Employment
Four new programs
to get Manitobans off welfare and into work under the Rewarding Work strategy
were announced today by Family Services and Housing Minister Gord Mackintosh and
Competitiveness, Training and Trade Minister Jim Rondeau.
Source:
Family
Services and Housing
Competitiveness,
Training and Trade
Related links:
Backgrounder
(Word file - 35K, 1 page)
October 17, 2007
Rewarding
Work
Last April ['07], the province announced Rewarding Work, a four-year,
$27-million plan to bring down barriers to employment and help Manitobans on employment
and income assistance find employment. The program complements other poverty-fighting
measures announced in the last budget including tax changes that benefits 6,000
low-income Manitobans and an enhanced property credit of $125 a year for working
low-income renters and homeowners. Other supports for low-income Manitobans include
a minimum wage increase to $8 per hour last April and lower child-care costs.
`Protesters
pan welfare rates
NDP announces incentives to work
October 18,
2007
Poverty was the topic of the day yesterday at the Manitoba Legislature,
with the government announcing new measures to entice people on social assistance
to work shortly after demonstrators held a rally outside to demand increases to
welfare rates.
Source:
Winnipeg Sun
`REWARDING
WORK' TO HELP LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES,
AND MOVE MORE MANITOBANS FROM WELFARE
TO WORK: MACKINTOSH
New Child Benefit, Lower-cost Child Care, Stronger
Work Incentives, And Skills Package in 10-point Reconstruction of Income Supports
News
Release
April 10, 2007
Filling thousands of job vacancies and increasing
family prosperity are the objectives of a ground-breaking, four-year action plan
to move Manitobans from welfare to work, Family Services and Housing Minister
Gord Mackintosh announced today. Manitobans should always be better off
working than on welfare. Yet in getting a job, too often you lose. Benefits are
reduced for child allowances, child care, drug, dental and optical coverage, which
makes work less attractive, said Mackintosh. We must dismantle this
welfare wall.
Backgrounder:
Rewarding Work - Gateway To Opportunities (PDF file - 21K, 3 pages)
Source:
Province
of Manitoba
Related link:
Reducing
Poverty in Manitoba (PDF file - 134K, 17 pages)
Budget Paper
E
Source:
Manitoba
Budget 2007 (April 4, 2007)
Google
Search Results Links - always current results!
Using the following
search terms (without the quote marks):
"Manitoba, "Rewarding Work",
welfare"
Web search results page
News search results page
Blog
Search Results page
NOTE: the Blog Search Results page had zero results
as at April 11 (early morning).
However, because these are dynamic links,
the results will vary depending on when you access the above links for all three
types of search results pages
Source:
Google.ca
Low-income
Families in the North Get Increased Assistance to Address High Cost of Food and
Essentials
March 15, 2007
Employment and income assistance (EIA)
for residents of Manitobas northern and remote communities will increase
effective April 1 to help residents buy expensive essential goods and nutritious
food, Family Services and Housing Minister Gord Mackintosh announced today.
2005-06
Annual Report - Family Services and Housing
- incl. links to earlier
annual reports back to 2001-2002 and Social Services Appeal Boards reports
An
Eye on Early Learning and Child Care in Manitoba
(PDF file - 1,160 KB, 11 pages)
The Manitoba Child Care Program's online newsletter
for child care providers.
October 2005 issue
Source:
Manitoba
Child Care Online
[ part of Manitoba
Family Services and Housing ]
2002/03
- 2003/04 Employability Assistance for People with Disabilities (EAPD) Report
May
18, 2005
"This Canada-Manitoba Agreement on Employability Assistance for
People with Disabilities (EAPD) Report describes activities that were cost-shared
under the EAPD Agreement during the 2002/03 and 2003/04 fiscal years. The EAPD
Agreement provides for the transfer of federal funding to provinces and territories
for a range of programs and services that enhance the economic participation of
working age adults with disabilities in the labour market. Programs and services
eligible for funding under the EAPD Agreement must provide the skills, experience
and supports necessary to assist persons with disabilities prepare for, attain
and retain employment. Funding is also provided for programs and services for
individuals who are experiencing vocational crisis."
Related Links:
Labour
Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities (LMAPD)
Baseline Report 2004-2005
November
2004
"This Canada-Manitoba Labour Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities
(LMAPD) Baseline Report describes objectives, services, target populations and
planned expenditures for programs and services to be cost-shared under the LMAPD
Multilateral Framework for the 2004/05 fiscal year. Societal indicators of labour
market participation from Statistics Canada.s Participation Activity Limitation
Survey for Canada and Manitoba are also included. The LMAPD provides for the transfer
of federal funding to provinces and territories for a range of programs and services
that enhance the economic participation of working age adults with disabilities
in the labour market. Programs and services eligible for funding under the LMAPD
must recognize the unique labour market challenges faced by persons with disabilities
and consider the distinct needs of each individual with a disability in determining
the set of interventions required to prepare for, attain and retain employment."
Manitoba
Services for People with Disabilities
Source:
Manitoba
Family Services and Housing
EAPD
Annual Report 2000/01 - 2001/02
Full Report (PDF - 662 KB; 51 pages)
Employability
Assistance for People with Disabilities (EAPD) Agreement Annual Report
Source:
Persons
with disabilities (links to resources for people with disabilities)
[ Manitoba
Family Services and Housing ]
Family
Services and Housing Progress Report (PDF file - 709K, 5 pages)
April
2003
- incl. references to January 2004 rate increases, the restoration of
the National Child Benefit to families, enhancements to income assistance for
persons with disabilities and to child care, affordable housing, Building Independence,
and more...
Channels
[Each
channel is a portal to further resources on a particular theme (including online
publications)]
- Children
and families - all services to families and children, from adoption, day care
and child welfare to the Shelter Assistance for Family Renters program
- Persons
with disabilities - covers a range of programs, including : day care for children
with disabilities - services for children in care with disabilities - children's
special services - Home Adaptations for Seniors' Independence - Income Assistance
for Persons with Disabilities - Residential Rehabilitation Assistance Program
(RRAP) for Persons with Disabilities - Supported Living - Vocational Rehabilitation
- and more...
- Financial
assistance - An expanded view of this section appears below.
- Housing
- links to the following : Subsidized Rental Accommodations (incl. Rural and Native
Housing) - Rent Assistance (School Tax Assistance for Tenants 55 Plus - Shelter
Allowance for Elderly Renters - Shelter Allowance for Family Renters
- Service
locations - for program information and applications
- Publications
- sorted by target population : Children and Families - Persons with disabilities
- Financial Assistance
- About
the Department
Employment
and Income Assistance Facts
- incl. links to the following info: Basic
Assistance (Rate Information) - Shelter Assistance - Health Needs - Other Assistance
- Employment - General Information
............................................................
Financial
assistance -
Programs covered in this section include :
Building Independence - offers opportunities to Employment and Income Assistance participants who are looking for work
Child Day Care Subsidy - helps eligible families with the costs of child care
Child Related Income Supplement Program (CRISP) - assists lower-income families with the cost of raising their children by providing a monthly income supplement
Children's Special Services - support for families to care for children who have physical and/or mental disabilities
Employment and Income Assistance - provincial program of last resort for Manitoba individuals and families in financial need
55 PLUS - income supplements to lower-income Manitobans who are 55 or older
Health Services - provides essential drug, dental, and optical supplies and services to Employment and Income Assistance participants and children in care
Income Assistance for Persons with Disabilities - financial assistance for low-income adults with a disability
Municipal Assistance - assistance provided by a local municipality to those in financial need who live outside of Winnipeg
Legislation
in effect today creates single income assistance system Municipal
Assistance Program |
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Employment
and Income Assistance (EIA) Administrative Manual
This is the provincial social assistance (welfare) policy manual. It contains
comprehensive and current information about eligibility, benefits and the administration
of the EIA program. The above link will take you to a general index of the 24
sections of this extensive manual - or you can go directly to the detailed Table
of Contents. The manual includes the complete text of the Employment and Income
Assistance Act and Regulation.
NOTE: for the most recent version of both the
statute and the regulations, see the next two links below
Employment
and Income Assistance Act
- Employment
and Income Assistance Regulation
Improvements
to Exemptions for People with Disabilities Receiving Employment and Income Assistance
Announced
April 14, 2003
"Manitobans with disabilities living
in the community can now use certain lump-sum payments to improve their quality
of life, without affecting their Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) benefits
(...) The new exemptions for EIA were developed with the community and allow people
to obtain enhanced disability supports."
Manitoba
Announces New Support For Families And Children
April 28, 2003
"More
for Day Care and Children with Disabilities, Legislation to Improve Collection
of Child Support Payments"
Related Links:
Health
Child Manitoba
Source: Department of
Family Services and Housing
Social
Services Appeal Process Improved By New Legislation
News Release
February 19, 2002
"The new Social Services Appeal Board Act, which ensures
Manitobans have a fair and impartial appeal process for a variety of social services
programs, has been proclaimed."
- Go to the Social
Services Appeal Board website
Sale
announces initiatives to improve housing
Family Services and Housing
October 11, 2000
The provincial government has introduced the Neighbourhood
Housing Assistance Program (NHA) to help communities improve housing stock and
has taken over
administration of the Residential Rehabilitation Assistance
Program (RRAP) from the federal government. As well, a more generous heating allowance
is being used
to calculate rental payments for public housing accommodations.
More...
Government
Restores Increase to the National Child Benefit Supplement
July 27, 2000
Building
Independence : Lowering Barriers to Employment
Initiatives Designed to
Help People Looking for Meaningful Work
$9.1
Million Increase In Funding For Manitoba’s Child Care System
Family
Services Minister Announces New Direction For Employment Income Assistance Recipients
Manitoba
Ministers Critical of Federal Homelessness Announcement
December 17, 1999
Family
Services and Housing Minister to Chair Ministerial Council
Increased
Spending to Enhance Programs, Services for Children and Youth
National
Child Benefit Reinvestments Support Lower-income Families
Manitoba
Government Introduces New Legislation to Support New Welfare Reform Initiatives
July 5, 1999
Learnfare:
Providing Young Parents And Their Children With The Keys To Success Parents Under
18 on Welfare Required to Stay in School, Take Parenting Courses
June
18, 1999
Work
Requirements for Able-bodied Recipients : New Policy Initiatives Build on Successful
1996 Welfare Reform Strategies
June 17, 1999
Province
Looks To Improve Income Program For Disabled
June 1999
Employability
Assistance For People With Disabilities (EAPD)
April 17, 1998
Provincial
and City Social Assistance Merge
March 1999
New
One-tier System to Improve Service For Manitobans in Need: Minister Bonnie Mitchelson
$1.5
Million More Announced for Training
October 1998
Program to Assist
Lower Income And Income Assistance Families (NCB Reinvestment)
Manitoba
Invests in Children and Families
June 17, 1998
Manitoba
to Invest in Children and Youth: Province Surpasses the National Child Benefit
To Invest in Manitoba's Future
March 1998
Investing
in Children and Youth a Priority
March 1998
Manitoba
Reaffirms Commitment to National Child Benefit
January 1997
Healthy
Child Manitoba Governments
of Canada and Manitoba sign funding agreement on Early Learning and Child Care Google
Web Search Results : "Manitoba, early
learning and child care agreement" For
more info concerning the federal-provincial ELCC agreements signed in the spring
of 2005, go to the Government Early Learning
and Child Care Links page: ---------------------------------------- From Manitoba Family Services and Housing: Moving
Forward on Early Learning and Child Care - Manitoba's Action Plan - Next Steps
Manitoba's
Action Plan - Next Steps (PDF file - 244K, 6 pages) Related Links: Moving
Forward on Early Learning and Child Care: Related links: Manitoba's
Five-Year Plan For Child Care Early
Learning and Child Care Services in Manitoba Child
Care Online ---------------------------------------- From Social Development Canada: Moving
Forward: Governments of Canada and Manitoba Moving
Forward on Early Learning and Child Care ---------------------------------------- Manitoba
child care deal sets cross-Canada standard ---------------------------------------- Google.ca
News Search Results : "Canada, Manitoba,
child care agreement" For related links, go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm |
New
Directions in Child and Family Services (July 1996)
Statement
of Government Policy on Manitoba Children and Youth
March 1998
Province
Releases ChildrenFirst Status Report
May 31, 1999
$9.1
Million Increase In Funding For Manitoba’s Child Care System
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Department of Finance ------------------ version française
Manitoba
Budget 2007 : The Building Budget
April 4, 2007
-
incl. links to : Minister's Budget Message - Speech - Budget In Brief - The Summary
Budget - Budget Papers - The Manitoba Advantage - Manitoba's Action Strategy for
Economic Growth - Estimates of Expenditure and Revenue -
Tax Savings Estimator
- News Releases - 2007 Budget Documents Request Form
Google Search
Results Links - always current results!
Using the following search
terms (without the quote marks):
"Manitoba provincial budget 2007, analysis"
Web
search results page
News search results
page
Blog Search Results page
Source:
Google.ca
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Manitoba
2006 Budget - March 6, 2006
- incl. links to
: Minister's Budget Message Speech - Budget In Brief - Budget Papers - The Manitoba
Advantage - Community Economic Development - Modernizing Government - Revenue
and Expenditures - Tax Savings Estimator - News Releases - 2006 Budget Documents
Request Form
[ version
française ]
Budget
in Brief
Budget
at a Glance (press release)
Google.ca
News Search Results : "Manitoba Budget
2006"
Google.ca Web Search Results : "Manitoba
Budget 2006"
Source:
Google.ca
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Manitoba
Budget 2005 : Balancing Priorities. Building Opportunities. Investing in Tomorrow.
March
21, 2005
- incl. links to : Minister's Budget Message - Speech
- Budget In Brief - Budget Papers
- The Manitoba Advantage - Addressing
Poverty in Manitoba - Manitoba's Action Strategy for Economic
Growth - Revenue and Expenditures - Tax
Savings Estimator - News Releases - 2005
Budget Documents Request Form
Addressing
Poverty in Manitoba
[2005 Budget Paper]
"Finding the right
mix of policy options to ensure that all members of society who are able to, have
the opportunity to participate in the work force is a key challenge facing governments
across Canada. In Manitoba, the challenge is complicated by several factors..."
[Previously
published as Welfare to Work: Creating a Community Where all Can Work,
Canadian Journal of Career Development 3, #2 2004]
Google.ca
News Search Results : "Manitoba
Budget 2005"
Google.ca Web Search Results : "Manitoba
Budget 2005"
Source:
Google.ca
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Manitoba
Budget 2004
April 19, 2004
Google News search
Results : "Manitoba budget 2004"
Google
Web Search Results : "Manitoba budget
2004"
Source:
Google.ca
For info on other Canadian jurisdictions' budgets, go to the Canadian Social Research Links Canadian Government Budgets page
Manitoba
Budget 2003
April 22, 2003
- incl. links to : Minister's Budget
Message - Speech - Budget Papers
- The Manitoba Advantage - Revenue
and Expenses - Manitoba's Action Strategy for Economic
Growth - Tax Savings Estimator - News
Releases - Budget 2003 Home / Budget Tour
Manitoba
Budget 2002
April 22, 2002
Budget
Papers
Budget
2002 at a Glance
News
Releases - including :
- Children,
Families and Communities Continue to Receive Support : "Budget
2002 Builds on Success of Healthy Child, Safety and Housing Programs: Selinger"
- Go to the Canadian Government Budgets Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets.htm
Canadian
Fiscal Arrangements : What Works, What Might Work Better
Conference
May 16-17, 2002
Winnipeg
"This conference is intended to foster
a greater understanding of Canadian fiscal arrangements, as well as to provide
an opportunity for public finance officials, academics, and other interested parties
to contribute to the debate on the future of fiscal arrangements."
Presentations
- presenters include : Keith Banting - Joe Ruggeri - Robin Boadway - Hon. Greg
Selinger (Minister of Finance of Manitoba) - Alain Noël - Paul Boothe - Kathy
Brock - Ron Neumann - James P. Feehan Elizabeth Beale
Source:
Manitoba
Finance and
the Institute of Intergovernmental
Relations [IIR] (Queen's University)
IIR conference archives - links to content from three conferences in 2002: (1) Canadian Fiscal Arrangements : What Works, What Might Work Better; (2) Reconfiguring Aboriginal-State Relations; and (3) Globalization, Multilevel Governance and Democracy: Continental, Comparative and Global Perspectives
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From Home Economics [ Manitoba Agriculture ]: The
Cost of Raising a Child: 2004 NOTE:
this report is no longer updated by Manitoba Agriculture, nor is it still on their
website. I contacted Manitoba Agriculture in early December 2005, and they confirmed
that the report is no more. |
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Manitoba
Women's Advisory Council
" The Manitoba Women's Advisory Council
advises the Manitoba government on issues concerning the status of women. The
Council, a self-governing organization operating at arms-length from government,
ensures that the voices of women throughout the province are heard."
- inl. links to Who We Are - Events/Information (Manitoba) - Parenting on your
Own (resources for single parents, see link below) - Links to Women's Organizations
Parenting
on Your Own - Manitoba (and some national) resources for single parents,
incl. descriptions and links under the follwoing headings : Aboriginal Services
- Abuse - Child Care - Disabilities - Employment/ Education/ Training - Health
- Housing - Income Assistance - Legal - Money Management & Stretching The
Dollar - Recreation And Wellness - Support For Families
Introduction
- Parenting on Your Own
Table
of Contents - Parenting on Your Own
Single
Parent Families to Benefit from New Online Resource Guide
News Release
April 05, 2002
- Release of the sixth
edition of Parenting on Your Own, a guide designed to support single
parents, and launch of the Internet version of the guide.
"The
handbook provides information about and resources for health, child care, finances,
housing and many other topics. Hundreds of resources as well as contact information
for community organizations are included. Over the years, more than 60,000 copies
have been printed."
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Department of Health ..................................version française
Insured Health Benefits| . |
Legislative Library of Manitoba.
Debates and Proceedings| . |
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Manitoba Seniors' Directorate .....................version française
Manitoba Seniors' Guide - excellent guide!| . |
Other Manitoba Sites - Autres sites du Manitoba
Manitoba
Chamber of Commerce calls for welfare hike
March
28, 2008
In an unusual pairing, the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce is teaming
up with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg to urge the province's NDP government
to raise welfare rates.After a year of talks with anti-poverty groups, chamber
president Graham Starmer has concluded the money welfare recipients receive to
pay for shelter falls well below what they need. Social assistance recipients
have to dip into other funds because their shelter rates haven't kept pace with
inflation, he said.
Source:
CBC
Related links:
Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
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Echoes
of Inner City Voices (PDF File - 3.6MB, 56 pages)
April 2005 (posted
online Feb. 22/08)
By Mike Maunder and Virginia Maracle with Tom Carter, Chesya
Polevychok and Tom Janzen
From June 1997 to September 1999, the Winnipeg Free
Press ran a weekly series of stories Inner City Voices that gave
voice to people in the inner city. (...) Five years later the authors revisited
some of the people they interviewed to see how their lives had changed and how
the inner city had changed.
- incl. statistics profiling inner city characteristics
and change; program and policy based material; and, socio-economic, demographic
and housing information.
Source:
Winnipeg
Inner City Alliance
[ Institute for
Urban Studies - University of Winnipeg ]
NOTE : the Winnipeg Inner
City Alliance has also just released a January
2008 report on financing providers (PDF file - 311 K, 37 pages) in Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Northwestern Ontario and to three New
Local Social Economy Research Projects.
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A
Province Left Behind.... Where's our poverty eradication plan,
Prime Minister
Harper, Premier Doer and Mayor Katz? (PDF file - 971K, 38 pages)
November
2007
Source:
Social Planning Council of
Winnipeg
Related links:
Child
poverty rate in Manitoba remains too high: Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
(November 26, 2007)
Source:
CBC
Campaign
2000 Report on Child and Family Poverty in Canada
Main page - includes
links to both the French and English media releases and reports, as well as links
to national report cards for previous years and for selected Canadian provinces.
[
Campaign 2000 ]
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Panhandling
In Winnipeg: Legislation versus Support Services
by Tom Carter - Canada
Research Chair in Urban Change and Adaptation -
with Anita Friesen, Chesya
Polevychok, John Osborne
May 2007
In June 2005, The City of Winnipeg passed
an amendment to By-Law 7700/2000 prohibiting some methods of panhandling, and
placing restrictions on some aspects of panhandling activity, particularly related
to specific types of services or locations. This project addresses the following
questions regarding the need for, and the effectiveness of, this legislation:
- Given the nature, number and activity of panhandlers in the city, is this
legislation an appropriate response to the circumstances?
- Is the legislation
likely to be effective? and,
- Are there more effective means of addressing
the issues of panhandling? Is legislation the answer or should the focus be on
services and programs to address systemic problems that lead to panhandling in
the first place?
The report is available
in four volumes:
(scroll to the bottom of the list
of journals for a brief summary of the content of each of the four volumes whose
links appear below)
Volume
1: Executive Summary (PDF file - 300K, 8 pages)
This volume presents
an overview of Volume 2, 3 and 4, and summarizes the findings of the Panhandling
in Winnipeg research project.
Volume
2: Literature and Legislation Review (PDF file - 598K, 55 pages)
Academic
literature provides valuable insights into who panhandles and why they are on
the streets of North American cities. The studies reviewed here document the increasing
diversity and overall growth in the numbers of people panhandling. Negative reactions
to panhandling have prompted many municipal governments to attempt to control
panhandling through legislation and/or program approaches that assist panhandlers
to get off the street. The main legislative/program approaches to
addressing panhandling are reviewed here.
Volume
3: Mapping of Panhandling Activity (PDF file - 10.2MB,
76 pages)
This volume presents the results of field observation of panhandling
activity in central Winnipeg. It focuses on the mapping of panhandling locations
and panhandling methods, including distribution of panhandlers throughout the
study area, priority or high traffic locations for panhandling activity, and proximity
to sensitive services. The types of panhandling methods used, and
the distribution and frequency of occurrences of different methods was also recorded
and mapped.
Volume 4: Interviews with Panhandlers (PDF file - 403K, 83 pages)
If you have any comments or questions about the report, please direct them to Tom Carter at t.carter@uwinnipeg.ca or you may contact him by phone at (204)982-1148.
Source:
Journal
articles, research reports ===> See also : * Research
Highlights * Background
and Resource Documents * Community
Briefs
[Institute of Urban Studies
(University of Winnipeg)]
Also from the Institute for Urban Studies:
Twelve
recent reports on panhandling (special focus on
Winnipeg)
Click the link above to access 20 reports of the Canada Research
Chair in Urban Change and Adaptation at the Institute of Urban Studies (University
of Winnipeg).
The titles of the 12 most recent reports appear below; click
the link above to access these studies and more...
* Why Panhandlers are
on the Streets of North American Cities (June 2007)
* Who Panhandles
in Winnipeg? (June 2007)
* Panhandling in Winnipeg Project: Mapping
Methodology (June 2007)
* Location of Panhandling Activity in Winnipeg
(June 2007)
* Panhandling Alone or in Groups: What is the Approach in Winnipeg?
(June 2007)
* When Panhandlers are Active in Downtown Winnipeg (June
2007)
* Different Groups' Perception of Panhandling in Winnipeg (June
2007)
* Legislative Approaches to Panhandling (June 2007)
* Program
Approaches to Panhandling (July 2007)
* Housing Circumstances of Panhandlers
in Winnipeg (July 2007)
* Does Panhandling Provide a Living (July
2007)
* Why do Panhandlers Panhandle in Winnipeg? (September 2007)
Source:
Publications
/ Research Highlights
[ Journal
articles, research reports ] ===> See also : Background
and Resource Documents * Community
Briefs
[ Canada
Research Chair in Urban Change and Adaptation ]
[ Institute
of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg ]
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Aboriginal
People in Manitoba (872K, 101 pages)
April
2006
The information contained in this publication is intended to:
* Serve
as a resource for policy makers
* Provide general information for those who
want to learn about Aboriginal Manitobans
* Provide factual information to
aid in eliminating misinformation and stereotypes
* Provide baseline information
for measuring program results.
Aboriginal People in Manitoba was produced by
Service Canada in co-operation with the Province of Manitoba.
Source:
Service
Canada
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Service
Canada Regional Information:
Manitoba
This
page provides information on region-specific services for Individuals, Business
and Organizations.
Services include: Jobs * Financial Benefits * Employment
Insurance * Taxes * Training and Careers * Identification Cards * Travel and Passports
* Health * Consumer Information * Canada and the World * Environment and Resources
* Economy * Public Safety * Culture and Recreation * Science and Technology.
Source:
Service
Canada
Human Resources and Social Development
Canada
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Manitoba
Office - CCPA
- Publications
Related
Link:
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) - National
Office
"The Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute
concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA
is one of Canadas leading progressive voices in public policy debates. By
combining solid research with extensive outreach, we work to enrich democratic
dialogue and ensure Canadians know there are workable solutions to the issues
we face. "
Recent reports:
Panhandling
should not be criminalized, says study
Press Release
September
20, 2007
Restrictions on peaceful panhandlingsuch as City of Winnipeg
Bylaw No. 128/2005constitute an illegitimate use of state power, says a
study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study,
by Arthur Schafer, director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics
at the University of Manitoba, says there is no moral or legal justification for
turning peaceful beggars into criminals.
Complete report:
The
Expressive Liberty of Beggars:
Why it matters to them, and to us
(PDF file - 282K, 28 pages)
Report
on the Manitoba Economy: 2007
September 13, 2007
FastFacts:
Manitoba's Minimum Wage? Be Realistic! - PDF file - 32K, 2 pages)
August
4, 2005
"A job at $10.00 per hour, with benefits and opportunities for
advancement, would draw many into the labour force. Such jobs provide dignity
and respect. A wage of $7.25 does not. Nor does it make economic sense."
In
for the Long Haul: Womens Organizations in Manitoba - PDF File
- 199 K, 24 pages)
August 16, 2005
"Just as women in Manitoba have
done for decades past, feminist and womens organizing for cultural, economic,
political, and social change continues unabated. Indeed, many of the issues remain
the same as during the second wave womens movement. Although there may not
be a province-wide group mobilizing women under one banner, this study has demonstrated
that there is a substantial amount of activity taking place across a wide range
of issues emanating from diverse perspectives and experiences."
FastFacts:
Lets Make a (New) Deal
September 2, 2005
"Just a
year ago, Ottawa geared up its official propaganda machine to praise NAFTAs
15-year record at stimulating trade and boosting efficiency (seemingly oblivious
to the almost weekly headlines bemoaning Canadas poor productivity performance).
Now, quickly, most Canadians (even in official circles) acknowledge the painful
truth: this trade deal is a dud."
Source:
Manitoba
Office Publications (CCPA)
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"There
are No Banks Here"
Financial & Insurance Exclusion in Winnipeg's North
End (PDF file - 276K, 56 pages)
by Jerry Buckland & Bruce Guenther
with Georgi
Boichey, Heather Geddie & Maryanne Mutch
September 2005
"Financial
exclusion is a matter of growing concern in Canada considering the decline in
the number of mainstream bank branches in some inner-cities and the concurrent
rise in the number of fringe banks. This study reports on results from a survey
of residents from Winnipeg's North End, a low-income area of the city. The study
seeks to understand resident's experiences with financial and insurance services:
which ones they use, which ones are important to them and how accessible the services
are. As a follow-up to research completed in 2002-2003 in the North End this survey
asked questions about a greater number of services (banks, fringe banks, informal
financial services and insurance services and financial support services) in a
semi-random fashion to a broader range of respondents (low- and middle-income).
Source:
Publications
(links to 18 studies and reports)
[ Winnipeg
Inner City Research Alliance (WIRA) ]
[ Institute
of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg ]
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Nodice
Elections: Manitoba
http://www.nodice.ca/elections/manitoba
Source:
Nodice
Elections
Related Links:
- Go to the
Political Parties and Elections Links in Canada (Provinces and Territories) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/politics_prov_terr.htm
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Surviving
on Hope is not Enough:
Women's Health, Poverty, Justice and Income Support
in Manitoba
May 28, 2004
Executive
Summary
" Women are more likely to live in poverty than
men. Women with disabilities, Aboriginal women, and single mothers have higher
rates of poverty. Women who live in poverty have poorer physical and mental health
than those with higher incomes."
Complete
report (PDF file - 725K, 56 pages)
Policy-Related
PWHCE Projects
- incl. links to research in the following areas:
Aboriginal
Women's Health - Health Reform and Policy - Immigrant / Refugee Women's Health
- Informal Caregivers' Health - Lesbian Health - Literature Reviews - Women, Poverty
and Health - Older Women's Health - Rural Women's Health - Women's Mental Health
- Women, Violence and Abuse - Women-centred Health Programs and Services
Source:
Prairie
Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE)
Related Links:
Centres
of Excellence for Women's Health (Health Canada)
- "The Womens Health Contribution Program supports policy research and education
on womens health issues. Managed by the Women's Health Bureau, Health Canada,
the Program is a partnership between community and academic researchers."
Women's
Health Bureau
[ Health
Canada Online ]
Also from PWHCE:
Women
and Social Assistance Policy in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
May
2005
By Josephine Savarese, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina
and
Bonnie Morton, Regina Anti-Poverty Ministry
"The Prairie Women's
Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) Research Program on Poverty and Women's Health
has supported several studies that examine the links between public policy, women's
poverty and women's health. In 2003, PWHCE initiated three research projects designed
to examine income assistance policies in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and their effects
on women's health. Reports from two of these projects were published in 2004:
Don't We Count As People: Saskatchewan Social Welfare Policy and Women's
Health and Surviving on Hope is Not Enough: Women's Health, Poverty,
Justice and Income Support in Manitoba. These two studies were based on
several focus groups held in each province and were designed to bring forward
the voices and perspectives of those most directly affected by income assistance
policies. As Wharf and MacKenzie have noted, 'the knowledge and experience gap
between those who make policy and those who must live with the consequences is
enormous.' The research helps bridge that gap by providing an important critique
of income assistance policies from the perspectives of women living on welfare.
The women's descriptions of their experiences reveal the inadequacy of income
assistance benefits and the harmful effects on their physical and emotional health."
Complete
report (PDF file - 927K, 62 pages)
NOTE: the complete report includes
both studies noted above.
Including
Low-Income Women with Children:
Program and Policy Directions
(PDF file - 596K, 57 pages)
Research Report
September 2007
By Lynn Scruby
and Rachel Rapaport Beck
Overview
of the report (HTML)
"(...) This qualitative research project
draws on principles from feminist and participatory action research methodology.
A total of nine focus group interviews were conducted at four Family Resource
Centres (FRCs) located in two urban communities in Winnipeg and two rural communities
in Eastern Manitoba. Fifty-six low-income women and 29 FRC service providers participated
in these interviews..."
List
of PWHCE publications by subject
- including : Aboriginal
Women's Health * Gender and Health Planning * Health Reform and Policy * Immigrant/Refugee
Women's Health * Informal Caregivers' Health * Lesbian Health * Literature Reviews
* Women, Poverty and Health * Older Women's Health * Rural Women's Health * Women's
Mental Health * Women, Violence and Abuse * Women-Centred Health Programs and
Services
Related links:
Including
Low-Income women with Children: Program and Policy Directions
September
12, 2007
This report examines information on the issues that affect the health
and well-being of low-income women with children, their families and the communities
in which they live as well as several of the key policy implications of these
findings and recommendations for action.
Source:
WinnipegFirst.ca
- Your first source for Winnipeg news
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Just
Income Coalition - Increase Manitoba's Minimum Wage Now!
"The
Just Income Coalition was developed in the fall of 2002 to promote economic justice
for low-income individuals and families in Manitoba by addressing the issue of
inadequate minimum wage levels. The Coalition consists of representatives from
a variety social service, community, Aboriginal, labour and faith based organizations."
-
incl. links to : News - Take Action - Just Income Facts - Coalition Partners -
Other Organizations - Contact Info
Online
Petition [Manitoba residents only...]
Just
Income Facts - a dozen articles and reports about minimum wages, with
a special focus on Manitoba, from groups including Canadian Policy Research Networks,
the Manitoba office of Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the Manitoba Federation
of Labour, etc.
Here's a recent sample:
Why
Increase the Minimum Wage?
April 2003
"This article from
the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba discusses the social benefits
of a strong minimum wage, and debunks myths about the effects on the business
community."
Working
for Low Pay (PDF file - 954K, 24 pages)
February 2003
"In
this presentation to Alberta Human Resources and Employment, CPRNs President,
Judith Maxwell, explores the dimensions and consequences of low-wage work, and
examines where responsibility might lie for measures designed to make work pay"
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Child
Care Coalition of Manitoba
"The Child Care Coalition of Manitoba
(est. 1993) is a broadly-based and unincorporated coalition of groups and individuals.
The Coalition currently has nearly 50 group memberships. Our members include parents,
the labour movement, women's groups, the childcare community, educators and researchers
and organizations committed to social justice, among others."
Child
care sector has huge economic and social impact for Winnipeg: Time for action,
say leading Winnipeggers
News Alert
May 20, 2004
Winnipeg
Project
"Child care is an essential element in urban infra-structure.
Yet, childcare in Winnipeg is characterized by serious inequities: some neighourhoods
have much worse access and service than others."
Complete report:
Time
for Action:
An Economic and Social Analysis of Childcare in Winnipeg
(PDF file - 2.1MB, 38 pages)
May 2004
Related Link:
The
Winnipeg Project
Childcare Research as a Tool for Development:
A
Social and Economic Impact Study of Childcare in Winnipeg
- one-year
research and action project on childcare in Winnipeg, ending in 2004, funded by
Status of Women Canada's Women's Program
UN
Platform for Action Committee (Manitoba) - UNPAC (MB) Women
& the Economy - a project of UNPAC |
Frontier
Centre for Public Policy
"The Frontier Centre for Public Policy
is an independent public policy think tank whose mission is "to broaden the
debate on our future through public policy research and education and to explore
positive changes within our public institutions that support economic growth and
opportunity."
| Aboriginal
Justice Inquiry - Child Welfare Initiative (AJI-CWI) The AJI-CWI is focused on restructuring the child and family services system in Manitoba to make it a system of concurrent jurisdiction in which the responsibility for CFS services will be based on a person's culture not where they live. Through this First Nations and Metis CFS agencies will serve members no matter where they live in the province. The AJI-CWI recently (August 9th) released a vision paper describing the proposed plan and has launched a public feedback process that will be underway until the end of September. The AJI-CWI represents a joint initiative among four parties: The Province of Manitoba - The Manitoba Metis Federation - The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs - The Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak. The purpose of the joint initiative is to work together through a common process to develop and subsequently oversee the implementation of a plan to restructure the child welfare system in Manitoba. |
Manitoba
Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation
University of Manitoba
The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation is a research unit in
the Faculty of Medicine at the U. of Manitoba. MCHPE conducts research on the
way health care services are used by Manitobans. It examines patterns of illness
in the population, and studies how people use health care services. It also researches
the factors that affect health, since there is considerable evidence that many
factors influence our physical well-being, including income, education, employment
and social status, as well as nutrition, early childhood programs and even highway
safety.
This site contains a raft of studies and reports on a variety
of health issues.
Here are just two samples of the excellent work you'll
find on this site...
Comparative
Indicators of Health and Health Care Use for Manitoba's Regional health Authorities:
a POPULIS report
UPDATED, Feb 20, 2000
PowerPoint presentation,
535K
Women,
Poverty and Health in Manitoba : An Overview and Ideas for Action
|
Taking Charge! Inc. is a company committed to providing client driven services to single parents on social assistance. It empowers them to meet their goal of economic self-sufficiency and take charge of their lives...
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Winnipeg Harvest (Food Bank)
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Social
Planning Council of Winnipeg (SPCW)
- incl. links to : About Us
- Happenings - Resources - Links - Media - Guestbook - Join SPC - Photo Gallery
- Contact Us.
Provincial
welfare rates debated
By Leah Kellar
September
25, 2007
A recent call by Social Planning Council of Winnipeg to raise provincial
social assistance rates has already been answered, according to Ministry of Family
Services and Housing.
In 2006, we invested over $22.4 million in shelter
assistance rates, said Charles McDougall, press secretary for Family Services
and Housing Minister Gord Mackintosh. We also increased rates for couples
and single persons by $20 a month in January 2004.
This conflicts with
a media statement from the council to promote its new Raise the Rates anti-poverty
campaign.
Source:
Portage Daily
Graphic (Portage la Prairie, Manitoba)
Manitoba
government urged to raise welfare rates
September
21, 2007
The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg is asking the provincial government
to raise social assistance rates, saying the current rates are driving recipients
into crime and despair. To get their message across, the council has launched
an anti-poverty campaign it's calling "Raise the Rates," which includes
a petition being circulated around the province.
Source:
CBC
Raise
the Rates Campaign (SPCW Poverty Advisory Committee)
Manitobas
welfare system, as it currently stands, is failing and is in need of a major overhaul.
The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg has launched a new campaign to Raise
the Rates of Manitobas Employment and Income Assistance (welfare)
program to improve the circumstances of the nearly 60,000 people who receive its
assistance, and who are among the poorest of all Manitobans.
- incl. links
to : Could you live on $6 a Day? - What kind of home would you choose? - Raise
the Rates Fact Sheet - Raise the Rates Pamphlet - Printable Petition
Inspired
by the Raise the Rates
campaign in British Columbia which calls for changes to their provincial
welfare program and increases to the minimum wage, the Manitoba campaign focuses
exclusively on the low levels of assistance provided by the EIA program and the
punitive policies that prevent people from getting ahead.
The campaign
centres on two major pieces -- a petition,
which began circulation earlier this year and two posters depicting the main recommendations
and messages of the campaign. Our primary objective is to collect as many signatures
to the petition as we can between now and November 15th to reach our target of
6,000.
Where
There's a Will There's a Way: If Not Now, When?
Manitoba Child and Family
Report Card 2005. [pdf, 21pp, 658KB]
November 2005
Related Link (national child poverty report):
New from Campaign 2000:
First
Ministers told to take action to lower shameful poverty rates
News
alert - Campaign 2000
Kelowna, BC, 23 Nov 05
"Activists took their
annual child poverty report directly to the First Ministers meeting here today.
The findings are discouraging. For almost 30 years the poverty rate has been stuck
at one-in-six children. Whether families are mother-led, have two parents, are
working full time or on social assistance the numbers are static. A particularly
disturbing finding is that child poverty rates for Aboriginal, immigrant, and
visible minority children are twice the national rate. Campaign 2000 National
Coordinator Laurel Rothman, whose organization prepares the annual update, was
joined by Peter Dinsdale of the National Association of Friendship Centres. They
are clearly frustrated by misplaced government priorities and jurisdictional wrangling."
Complete report:
Decision
Time for Canada: Lets Make Poverty History
2005 Report Card on Child
Poverty in Canada [pdf, 12pp, 500KB]
Paid
to be Poor:
Report of the 2005 Manitoba Low Wage Community Inquiry
(PDF file - 2.2MB, 86 pages)
October 2005
"The
Just Income Coalition sponsored a series of community hearings in Winnipeg, Brandon
and Thompson. A balanced, broadly-based panel of independent listeners
heard the first-person stories of Manitobans affected by low wages 34 low-income
individuals, and 38 spokespersons for community organizations (unions, health
and social services, faith leaders, etc.). For these hearings, the Coalition widened
its focus beyond the minimum wage issue to include all workers in low wage employment.
The majority of Manitobas low wage workers are women. The Panel heard from
single mothers and couples, students and workers, Aboriginal people and immigrants,
and those with disabilities and long-term illness. According to data purchased
from the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, over one-quarter of the work force
received less than a living wage ($10.25 per hour) in 2004. Just over 6 percent
received the current minimum wage of $7.25 or less. This survey [see Appendix
I] explodes the myth that most low wage employees are teenagers or single adults
with no family responsibilities."
Press
Release (PDF file - 111K, 2 pages)
October 5, 2005
Source:
Just
Income Coalition (Manitoba)
"The Just Income Coalition formed
in the fall of 2002 when a group of representatives from labour, human services,
faith, women's, and Aboriginal organizations came together out of a shared concern
over the inadequate minimum wage and its impact on low income Manitobans."
Related Link:
Social
Planning Council of Winnipeg (SPCW)
NOTE: check the SPCW Resources
and Links pages for dozens
of online resources
15
years and counting: Manitoba child poverty report card 2004 [pdf,
26pp, 726KB]
November 2004
Source:
Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
Related Links:
Child poverty: setting
new goals
[NOTE: this article is no longer available]
November
24, 2004
CAROL GOAR
"Giving up is not an option. But clinging to a
faded dream is not a solution.
So today, on the 15th anniversary of his parliamentary
resolution to end child poverty by 2000, Ed Broadbent will set a new goal. He
will challenge Canadians to reduce the child poverty rate to 5 per cent within
10 years. His new target lacks the tidy finality of the one he persuaded all MPs
to endorse on Nov. 24, 1989, shortly before his retirement as leader of the New
Democratic Party. It is less ambitious, less appealing.But Broadbent, who returned
to active politics this year, believes it is realistic and achievable. He calls
it 'a new agenda for a new time.'
The child poverty rate currently stands at
15 per cent. It was 15.2 per cent when Broadbent issued his clarion call 15 years
ago."
Source:
The Toronto Star
Complete report:
One
million too many: Implementing solutions to child poverty in Canada
2004 report
card on child poverty in Canada [pdf, 12pp, 186KB]
November 24,
2004
Source:
Provincial
Child Poverty Report Cards: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba,
Ontario, Nova Scotia
NOTE: click the link above to access current and
historical poverty reports for all six provinces.
Source:
Campaign 2000
Poverty
Barometer - May 2004 (PDF file - 217K, 4 pages)
May
2004
Overview of the early childhood care and education situation in Canada
and in Manitoba, what we can do about it and at what cost --- includes a recommendation
for "a national universal early childhood care and education system, with
public funding, for all children from birth to age 12."
Acceptable
Living Level 2003 - January 2004 (PDF file, 391K, 82 pages)
"The 2003 Acceptable Living Level Report represents a
continued effort to inform and educate the public on the realities of poverty
in Manitoba. It seeks to address and abolish the myths and stereotypes of poverty
by providing an honest analysis of poverty in Manitoba. The primary goal of the
report is to determine an adequate and disposable income or expenditure level
on a market basket of goods and services that can sustain a fair, modest and acceptable
living level. This report asks how much is too little rather than
how much is too much. We believe that every Manitoban has the right
to an acceptable living level. The Acceptable Living Level
Report originated as a challenge to devise a better measure of poverty
for Winnipeg. The first A.L.L. Report was released in 1997 by Winnipeg Harvest
and the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg.
Source:
Social
Planning Council of Winnipeg
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Community Legal Education Association (CLEA)
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Canadian Union of Public Employees Manitoba (CUPE)
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Manitoba WORKink
- "The Virtual Employment Resource Centre"
Career
and Employment Resources for Persons with Disabilities
- Links to a wide range of information for people with
disabilities and those who support them.
Source:
Canadian
Council on Rehabilitation and Work
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Manitoba WorkInfoNet
(MBWIN) - "An Internet directory that provides information on different
aspects of the Manitoba labour market and helps Manitobans connect to the information
and resources they need for success in the changing job market."
Incl.
links to information in the following areas: Financial Help and Issues - Jobs,
Work and Recruiting - Labour Market Information and Outlook - Learning,
Education
and Training - Self Employment - At Work and In the Community - Occupations and
Careers
| List
of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the third periodic
report of Canada : United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights - Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (June 10, 1998) Manitoba Government Response to the List of U.N. Issues |
| Another
Look at Welfare Reform (Autumn 1997) - an in-depth analysis by the National Council of Welfare of changes in Canadian welfare programs in the 1990s. The report focuses on the provincial and territorial reforms that preceded the repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan and those that followed the implementation of the Canada Health and Social Transfer. Complete report online - large file (300K+) but well worth the wait for detailed information on welfare reforms in the 1990s in each Canadian jurisdiction, as well as a national overview of the broad issues of welfare reform and the setting for welfare reform in Canada Source: National Council of Welfare |
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