DEPARTMENTS,
DOCUMENTS Social
Development
- (name
changed Dec 19/07, formerly Family and Community Services)
-
incl. links to : Department (Minister - Contacts - Employees) - About (Adoption
and Foster Care - Social Assistance - Protection - Housing - Long Term Care -
Childcare) - Programs and Services (Families - Children - Youth - Seniors - Persons
with Disabilities) - Information (Legislation - Publications - Related Sites -
Statistics)
Social
Assistance
Department responsible for welfare
Social Development
-
(name changed Dec
19/07, formerly Family and Community Services)
Name
of the welfare program
Social
Assistance
Legislation
Family
Income Security Act
- Family
Security Regulation
Source:
NB
Acts and Regulations
Policy Manual
New
Brunswick Welfare Policy Manual + link to legislation
"This
electronic version of the HRD-NB policies is an unofficial version which contains
essentially the same material found in HRD-NB's in-house on-line help. This version
has been edited for relevancy of content. For example, technical procedures unrelated
to policy application have been removed. A full, unabridged version of on-line
help can be requested under the Right to Information Act."
- includes sections
on Applicant And Client Types - Assets And Income - Benefits - Intake And Continuing
Eligibility - Programs - Rates (although not basic rates)
- includes links
to the Family Income Security Act and Regulation
Frames
version of the policy manual - easier to navigate, but not for bookmarking
individual pages.
Welfare statistics
Trends
and Statistics (caseload tables, graphs and analysis)
Welfare
rates (benefits)
Social
Assistance Rate Schedules - incl. a short description of each of the three
rate programs.
Family
Security Regulation - Rates are in Schedules A, B
Latest
search results on Google.ca for
"welfare,
-child, -animal, New Brunswick"
- Web
search results
- News
search results
- Blog
search results
Related Links
* Public engagement initiative : Developing
a poverty reduction plan
November 13, 2009
* Overcoming
Poverty Together: The New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Plan
(PDF - 100K, 5 pages) - November 13, 2009
* Department
of Social Development Annual Report 2007-08 (PDF - 1.1MB, 74 pages)
[ links to earlier
annual reports and other publications of the Department]
* Life
on Social Assistance in New Brunswick, or "If Welfare Owns You, You
Can't Do Nothing" - July 2005 (PDF file - 330K, 57 pages) [
Source: New Brunswick
Advisory Council on the Status of Women ]
* Discussion Paper on Social Policy
(PDF file - 115K, 20 pages)
- February 1999 <<<=== excellent historical
document
---
Overcoming
Poverty Together:
The New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Plan
Official website of the New Brunswick government initiative to establish
a poverty reduction plan
The New Brunswick
Economic and Social Inclusion Plan
A NOTE CONCERNING POVERTY REDUCTION :
To avoid duplication of links on multiple pages of this site, I've
moved most of the links to information about poverty reduction
to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page of this site:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
|
Changes
to Household Income policy introduced
February 17, 2010
FREDERICTON (CNB) - The provincial government is improving the Household
Income Policy for Department of Social Development clients. Kelly Lamrock,
minister of social development, made the announcement today. (...) The new
policy, which only applies to clients who were in receipt of assistance
as of Jan. 1, represents a $5-million investment this fiscal year. It is
an interim measure that will help current clients economically until Social
Assistance Reform, including an important and significant overhaul of the
Household Income Policy, is complete in mid-2011.
Related links:
Social
assistance clients can have roommates: Minister Lamrock
February 17, 2010
The New Brunswick government has stopped penalizing social assistance recipients
who have roommates. It has eliminated a decades-old policy that clawed back
the benefits of low-income clients who live with someone else to pool their
financial resources, Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock announced
Wednesday.
Source:
CBC New Brunswick
The
Household Income Policy
FAPO
warns Government to keep its hands off Human Rights Act
(PDF file - 150K, 1 page)
[ text
version ]
December 13, 2004
"The Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization
is warning the Lord government to keeps its hands off an amendment to the NB Human
Rights Act (see below for the link to a summary of these amendments) that will
allow welfare recipients to live together after January 1st. Dan Weston of the
Fredericton Anti-Poverty Organization says the Lord government will have a fight
on its hands if it tries to weaken the Human Rights Act by exempting the controversial
Economic Unit Policy. He calls the Economic Unit Policy 'the single biggest creator
of homelessness in New Brunswick.'" More
on the Economic Unit Policy from FAPO (PDF file - 1.3MB, 2 pages)
October
2002 Source:
Fredericton
Anti-Poverty Organization (FAPO) Related
info: An
Act to Amend the Human Rights Act
First Reading : December 9, 2004
Second
Reading : December 10, 2004
Source:
New
Brunswick Legislative Assembly To
place this into context: The maximum
social assistance payable to a single unemployed man or woman in New Brunswick
is $264 per month.
Source:
Social
Assistance Rate Schedules
[ Department
of Family and Community Services ] Household
Income Policy
"An Economic Household is defined
as two or more persons residing together who share the responsibilities of the
household, and benefit economically from the sharing of food, shelter and/or facilities.
When an Economic Household is determined to exist, FCS will consider it one household,
and therefore determine eligibility for only one assistance cheque. FCS determines
economic households to exist even though there is no marital, familial, or conjugal
relationship among the members of the household. This policy was developed in
order to ensure we do not discriminate against people on the basis of gender,
marital status, or sexual orientation. The determination of an economic household
will often result in assistance being refused, cancelled, or decreased, depending
on the particular circumstances."
Source:
Excerpt from the
New
Brunswick Social Assistance Policy Manual
[ Department
of Family and Community Services ] Amendments
to the Human Rights Act
July 7, 2004
"FREDERICTON (CNB) -
The following statement was issued by Alanna Palmer, Chair of the New Brunswick
Human Rights Commission.
The Human Rights Commission
welcomes the addition of the two new grounds of prohibited discrimination to the
New Brunswick Human Rights Act: social condition and political belief or activity.
This amendment was passed by the legislature last week and is expected to come
into effect on December 31, 2004.
Source:
N.B.
Human Rights Commission |
Moving
Forward: Governments of Canada and New Brunswick sign an Agreement on Early
Learning and Child Care
News Release
"November 24, 2005— Social
Development Minister Ken Dryden and Joan MacAlpine-Stiles, New Brunswick’s
Minister of Family and Community Services,announced today an historic Agreement-in-Principle
that further supports the development of quality early learning and child care
(ELCC) for young children and their families in New Brunswick. 'This Agreement-in-Principle
sets out the framework for delivering high-quality and affordable Early Learning
and Child Care throughout the province, whether in urban areas or in rural or
remote communities,' said Minister Dryden. 'It is one more piece in the development
of an ambitious system of Early Learning and Child Care in every province and
territory in the country. This Agreement-in-Principle means more opportunities
for a better future for New Brunswick children and their parents.'”
Related
Links:
Moving
Forward on Early Learning and Child Care : Agreement in Principle Between the
Government of Canada and the Government of New Brunswick (PDF file
- 401K, 10 pages)
Google Web Search
Results : "New Brunswick, early learning
and child care agreement"
Google News search Results : "New
Brunswick, early learning and child care agreement"
Source:
Google.ca
Related
Links:
- Go to the Government Early Learning and Child
Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm
One-time measures to
help welfare recipients
Health benefits will be extended, transitional funding
provided to those who go back to work
[NOTE: this link is dead - I'm
leaving the text here for your info...]
December 2, 2004
Telegraph-Journal
"The
New Brunswick government will soon provide a one-time extension of health benefits
and transitional funding for welfare recipients who return to the workforce. The
new measures designed to make it easier for individuals to get off welfare will
be announced today in the government's throne speech. Premier Bernard Lord said
Wednesday the province will provide the extension of provincial health card benefits
to people who have been on welfare so they won't lose prescription drug coverage
after securing a job. The province will also provide welfare recipients returning
to the workforce with one-time funding to assist them with specific costs such
as transportation and work clothing."
Source:
canadaeast.com
Related
Links:
NB
Social Assistance
New
Brunswick Welfare Policy Manual
Department
of Family and Community Services
Historical
Document: BUILDING TOMORROW TOGETHER
Discussion Paper on Social Policy
(PDF file - 115K, 20 pages)
- February 1999
Province-wide consultation "about future directions and underlying values for
New Brunswick's social policy."
Covers a wide
range of issues including income assistance, persons with disabilities, human
rights. etc.
Source:
Social Policy Renewal Secretariat |
Canada
and New Brunswick sign agreement to assist people with disabilities
News
Release
May 21, 2004
"FREDERICTON - New Brunswickers with disabilities
will be able to participate more easily in the labour market because of an agreement
announced today by the Honourable Andy Scott, Minister of State (Infrastructure),
on behalf of the Honourable Liza Frulla, Minister of Social Development, and the
Honourable Tony Huntjens, New Brunswick Minister of Family and Community Services.
'Helping people with disabilities to be more fully involved as citizens is a priority
for all governments,' said Minister Scott. 'Every New Brunswicker must have the
opportunity to make a contribution to our economy and our society. I am so pleased
to work with New Brunswick on this national priority.'"
Source:
Social
Development Canada (SDC)
This agreement
was signed under the Multilateral
Framework for Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities,
which replaced the Employability Assistance for People with Disabilities initiative
in April 2004.
For more info about the national framework and the agreements
signed with other jurisdictions to date, go to the Disability Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/disbkmrk.htm
Financial
assistance for day care services - New Brunswick
News Release
August
25, 2004
"FREDERICTON (CNB) - Beginning on Sept. 1, more New Brunswick
parents will be eligible for funding under the Day Care Assistance Program to
access affordable and quality child care. The provincial government reminds parents
that significant enhancements have been made to the Day Care Assistance Program.
First, the family income threshold for a full day care subsidy has been raised
from $15,000 to $22,000 yearly net family income. The government also increased
the subsidy rate to $22 per day for children under the age of two, $20 per day
for children over the age of two; and $10.75 per day for after-school children.
All these changes come into effect on Sept. 1, 2004. (...)
The Day Care
Assistance Program is part of the New Brunswick's investments under the Early
Learning and Child Care agreement." (bolding added)
Source:
Department
of Family and Community Services
Related Links: see the Early Learning
and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm
Early
Childhood Development New
Brunswick Family and Community Services
Early Childhood Development Agenda
presented
January 20, 2005
"FREDERICTON
(CNB) - Increased funding in day care services in New Brunswick is one of the
highlights of the provincial government's fourth report on the Early Childhood
Development Agenda, presented today by Family and Community Services Minister
Tony Huntjens. 'I am pleased to report that in 2002-2003,
we increased funding to improve the working conditions and training of staff in
the province's day care centres,' Huntjens said. 'We increased opportunities for
children with special needs to attend full-time day care. We also provided funding
to improve the health of pregnant women and their newborns, and we supported mothers
and young children living in transition houses.'" Complete
report: Greater
Opportunities for New Brunswick Children:
An Early Childhood Development Agenda
Investments
and Outcomes(2002–03) (PDF file - 798K,
35 pages) Source:
Family
and Community Services Related
Links: go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm Greater
Opportunities for New Brunswick Children: An Early Childhood Development Agenda
Update - June 2002
(PDF file - 6.9MB, 10 pages) Second
phase of Early Childhood Development Agenda
June 11, 2002
"FREDERICTON
(CNB) - Family and Community Services Minister Joan MacAlpine has reconfirmed
New Brunswick's commitment to young children and their families. This year, almost
$36 million will be spent on programs and activities to support greater opportunities
for New Brunswick children. Today the minister announced Phase Two initiatives
of the province's Early Childhood Development Agenda." Greater
Opportunities for New Brunswick Children: An Early Childhood Development Agenda
Phase
1: 2001-2002
PDF file - 830K, 11 pages
April
2001 (Modified June 2002)
Launch
of Children's Support Program - Dec. 12, 2001 (...one of seven initiatives
of the Early Childhood Development Agenda (ECD) which will invest about $50 million
in New Brunswick children over the next five years). Early
Childhood Development Agenda - Backgrounders
- incl.
links to : Child Witnesses of Family Violence - Community Capacity Building for
Children and Families - Early Language Program for Preschool Children - Enhanced
Child Day Care Services - Enhancements to Early Childhood Initiatives - Excellence
in Parenting - Prenatal Benefit Program Budget
estimates - Family and Community Services - April 10, 2001 |
Housing
Programs and Services
- includes information about
housing and shelter assistance programs in New Brunswick
Prenatal
Benefit Program launched
Family and Community Services
Jan. 17, 2002
This program is one of the initiatives included in the Early Childhood Development
Agenda.
Launch
of Children's Support Program
Family and Community Services
Dec. 12,
2001
Women and children who are victims of family violence will be offered
new services under the Children's Support Program launched today by the Department
of Family and Community Services and the New Brunswick Coalition of Transition
Houses. (...) The Children's Support Program is one of seven initiatives of the
Early Childhood Development Agenda (ECD) which will invest about $50 million in
New Brunswick children over the next five years.
Launch
of PolicyLinkNB project
Nov. 16, 2001
FREDERICTON (CNB) -- A group
of voluntary organizations in New Brunswick will undertake a project that will
focus on building the capacity of the voluntary sector to influence the policies
that affect their organizations and the people they represent.
Budget
estimates - Family and Community Services
April
10, 2001
Minister's
statement / National Child Day
Family and Community
Services
Nov. 20, 2000
-
Includes a list of programs and services implemented over the past few years to
assist New Brunswick children and their families.
Disability
supplement for disabled
October 4/00
Office of the Premier
Family
and Community Services
FREDERICTON (CNB) - Social
assistance clients who are certified disabled will receive additional funding
in their social assistance cheques this month.
Full
Story...
2000-2001
Budget Estimates
Press Release (06/00)
Report
on child welfare released
News Release
Family and Community Services
June
29, 2000
Province
to receive $2.4 million to fight homelessness - December 23, 1999
Federal
funding to prevent homeless [sic] - December 17, 1999
Concerted
attack on child poverty needed - November 24, 1999
Social
assistance reforms must be suited to New Brunswick - Press Release (Sept.
30, 1999)
Post-Secondary
Education, Training and Labour
Minimum
wage in New Brunswick - under the Employment Standards Act
---
N.B.
to raise minimum wage to $10
January 5, 2010
New Brunswick is sticking with its plan to raise the minimum wage to $10
an hour over the next 20 months — with one of the increases coming
in the middle of the government's September re-election campaign. But Labour
Minister Donald Arseneault said the minimum wage is not about politics.
"To bring our minimum wage to the Atlantic average by September 2011
is a priority issue for our province if we are going to reduce the level
of poverty in our province," Arseneault said Tuesday. About four per
cent of New Brunswick workers earn the minimum wage.
The wage will rise in four steps:
* April 1, 2010: an increase of 25 cents to $8.50 per hour.
* Sept. 1, 2010, an increase of 50 cents to $9 per hour.
* April 1, 2011: an increase of 50 cents to $9.50 per hour.
* Sept. 1, 2011: an increase of 50 cents to $10 per hour.
Source:
CBC New Brunswick
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How does that compare
with other Canadian jurisdictions?
Current
And Forthcoming Minimum Hourly Wage Rates For Adult Workers in Canada
(this is the BEST resource for info on
current and upcoming minimum wage levels by province/territory)
Minimum
Hourly Wages for Canadian Adult Workers since 1965
This information is broken up into five files - one for each decade.
The link above takes you to the latest decade (2005 to 2014); click the
date links at the top of the page for pages for earlier decades.
NOTE: Several other jurisdictions have
either recently increased their minimum wage level or will be doing so in
the coming months.
Highlights:
* Newfoundland and Labrador increased its minimum wage from $9.00 to
$9.50 as of January 1.
* Nova Scotia will increase its minimum wage twice this year - in April
and October. The current level is $8.60, increasing to $9.65 as of October.
* Ontario's minimum wage, currently $9.50, will increase to $10.25 at the
end of March.
* Since 2007, Yukon increases its minimum wage each April to match increase
in the Consumer Price Index for the City of Whitehorse.
For more information, see Minimum
Hourly Wages, 2005-2014 (this is the same link as above)
Source:
Minimum
Wage Database
[ Employment
Standards Legislation in Canada ]
[ Labour Program,
Human Resources and Social Development Canada ]
- Go to the Minimum Wage /Living Wage
Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/minwage.htm
Health
Finance
HOME PAGE
Budget Documents
New
Brunswick Budget 2010 - 2011
December 1, 2009
The 2010-11 provincial budget will focus on continuing record funding
for health care and education; tax relief to individuals and businesses;
and record capital investments of $896 million for strategic infrastructure
projects. These investments will boost the two-year record capital
investments of $1.2 billion announced in March to almost $1.6 billion.
- includes links to all budget documents and related multimedia
presentations
- also includes links to previous budgets
Record
health, education investments, priority investments key to 2010-11
budget
News Release
Dec 1, 2009
FREDERICTON (CNB) - The 2010-11 provincial budget will focus on
continuing record funding for health care and education; tax relief
to individuals and businesses; and record capital investments of
$896 million for strategic infrastructure projects. These investments
will boost the two-year record capital investments of $1.2 billion
announced in March to almost $1.6 billion. Finance Minister Greg
Byrne tabled the budget in the legislative assembly today. (...)
The main components of the budget are in
keeping with the priorities of last year's budget:
* a record two-year investment in infrastructure
approaching $1.6 billion;
* the second phase of The Plan for Lower Taxes in New Brunswick;
and
* record investments in priorities, including health care, education
and social development.
Budget
Speech (PDF - 824K, 29 pages)
Economic
Update (PDF - 375K, 12 pages)
Delivering Lower Taxes for New Brunswickers (PDF - 209K,
8 pages)
Main
Estimates (PDF - 1.2MB, 326 pages)
Source:
New Brunswick Department
of Finance
________________
Related links:
New
Brunswick Liberals expect $749 million deficit in 2010-11
By Marty Klinkenberg
December 1, 2009
FREDERICTON — Struggling in the polls as a result of its plan
to sell NB Power to Hydro Quebec, Premier Shawn Graham's Liberal
government rolled out an election-year budget Tuesday that calls
for nearly $8 billion in spending, including record investments
in health and education. The government estimates it will spend
a record $2.46 billion on health, an increase of $82.8 million over
the current fiscal year; $996 million on education, an increase
of 3.3 per cent; and $987 million on social development, an increase
of $35 million.
Source:
New Brunswick
Telegraph-Journal
---
Reading
Between the Lines of "Overcoming Poverty Together-
NB Economic and Social Inclusion Plan" (PDF - 1.6MB,
28 pages)
Analysis by the Common Front for
Social Justice
[Powerpoint presentation]
February 2010
NOTE: This is an analysis of the poverty situation and the New Brunswick
Government's poverty reduction plan; the 2010-2011 provincial budget
is mentioned in some bullet points on p. 26.
"... 2010-2011 budget offers no relief for those most in need"
"For 97% of social assistance, there will be no changes in
rate until April 2011 or possibly later."
---
Finance
minister says program and service cuts, fee hikes are in the cards
under the budget
By Nick Moore
FREDERICTON - New Brunswickers will continue to pay lower tax rates
next year, but could also face the possibility of paying higher
fees for some provincial services and see reductions to certain
programs and services currently offered. Yesterday's provincial
budget also detailed changes to the government's initial plan to
see a return to balanced budgets by the 2012-13 fiscal year. That
plan has now been pushed back further by another two years, to 2014-15
Source:
Times & Transcript
---
New
Brunswick records largest deficit in province's history
December 1, 2009
FREDERICTON – New Brunswick has recorded a $754-million deficit
for the 2009-10 fiscal year, the highest deficit in the province's
history. The provincial government tabled a $8-billion budget Tuesday
for 2010-11 with no expectation to get out of the red ink until
at least 2014.
Source:
The Toronto Star
|
Department
of Justice
HOME
PAGE
The
Family Support Orders Service
NB
Acts and Regulations
- organized alphabetically
Social
Condition added to Human Rights Act - New Brunswick
On June 30, 2004
the New Brunswick government passed an amendment to the New Brunswick Human Rights
Act to include "social condition" as a protected ground in the Act.
Throughout the Act all relevant sections will be amended striking out "or
sex" and substituting ", sex, social condition, political belief or
activity".
See the New Brunswick government website for a
listing of the amended sections.
Source:
PovNet
See also:
Province
to restore legal aid services (NB Govt.)
Post-Secondary
Education and Training
Office
of the Auditor General
HOME
PAGE
Auditor-General's
Reports (1995 to 2002)
1996
Report - incl. chapter on Andersen Consulting
1998
Report - incl. chapter on the NB Case System (Andersen Consulting)
NOTE:
there's a section in each report entitled "Follow-up on Prior Years' Audit
Work" - you'll find references to Andersen Consulting in this section for
most years
Department
of Education
HOME
PAGE
Executive
Council Office
Women's
Issues
New
Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women
- incl. links to
: What's New - Issues - Documents - Who We Are / Contacts - Talent Banks &
Groups
NOTE: the Documents section contains links to over two dozen reports
on women and health, early childhood services, history and pay equity
Sample
reports:
Employment
Insurance and Women: What You Should Know (PDF - 130K, 6 pages)
[* includes links to nearly three dozen online resources]
April 2009
Table
of contents:
1. Fewer Women Qualify
2. Accumulating Those Magic Hours
3.
When Caring Conflicts With Work
4. Women’s Benefits Are Low
5. Inadequate
Sickness Benefits
6. A Poor Plan For Parents
7. Quebec Parents Have It
8.
Inadequate Caregiving Leave
9. What Women Want
10. In Support of Effective
Policies
Life
on Social Assistance in New Brunswick, or
"If Welfare Owns You, You Can't
Do Nothing" (PDF file - 330K, 57 pages)
Ysabel Provencher
& Chantal Bourassa, Action Research Laboratory, School of Social Work, Université
de Moncton
July 2005
"The two general objectives of the study were
to gain a better understanding of (1) the reality of Francophone social assistance
recipients in New Brunswick, and (2) the successes and difficulties encountered
in implementing the new mechanisms, policies, and programs associated with the
1995 reform of the social assistance system. The findings of this study arose
from a series of five group interviews conducted with Francophone social assistance
recipients in the southeastern and northern regions of the province in the summer
and fall of 2004. (...)We describe a few aspects of the social assistance system
(income levels, programs and benefit rates, eligibility procedures) and present
a few characteristics of the provincial profile of social assistance recipients
(number of households on social assistance, distribution of recipients by type
of household and benefit rate). "
- highly recommended, excellent resource
on welfare reforms in New Brunswick!
Women's
List - Federal Election 2008
September 2008
Issues
of importance to Canadian women’s equality in the 2008 federal election:
*
Deliver on the constitutional promise of equality
* Ensure equal rights for
Aboriginal women
* Fund quality early childhood care & education
* Ensure
a livable income
* Commit to affordable housing
* Eliminate violence against
women
* Ensure access to justice
* Improve maternity & parental benefits
*
Act for women’s health
* Increase female political representation
Click
the Women's List
link for a collection of over 120 individual resources related to the above
list of issues.
[Some of this info is specific to NB]
NOTE: Never
mind the federal election --- I highly recommend this resource as a primer on
women's issues in Canada!
Poverty
is everybody's business in N.B.
October 2, 2008
By Elsie Hambrook
Nasty
prejudices still get in the way of concerted action on poverty. Some people paint
all the poor with the same brush. They think the poor are "lazy" or
"irresponsible", that if they made different choices, worked harder
or "smarter", they could pull themselves out of poverty. Denial is also
a stumbling block, as in "I'd never go on welfare, it'll never happen to
me." The reality is that many people work full-time but earn less than the
poverty line, juggle part-time or seasonal jobs, education and training along
with family responsibilities and still can't make ends meet. For some New Brunswickers,
poverty is as close as a few missed paycheques, the result of a separation or
divorce for women, or of an illness or disability that strikes before the Old
Age Pension kicks in.
Source:
Times
& Transcript
[ Author Elsie Hambrook is the
new Chairperson of the
New
Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women ]
Shouldn't
we have a plan to reduce poverty?
A Woman's View
(PDF - 63K, 2 pages)
We should be hard-headed about poverty in New Brunswick
– “hard-headed” as in focussed and scientific about finding and
doing what works to eliminate poverty. Some current poverty programs, here and
in other jurisdictions, may have the effect of keeping people poor, for all the
care that goes into what gets called a “poverty program”. What is worse,
effective programs may be undone by other initiatives, given the lack of coordination
and of monitoring.
From the column by Ginette Petitpas-Taylor
Former Chairperson
of the
New Brunswick
Advisory Council on the Status of Women
in the Times
& Transcript, July 17, 2008.
Life
on Social Assistance in New Brunswick, or
"If Welfare Owns You, You Can't
Do Nothing" (PDF file - 330K, 57 pages)
Ysabel Provencher
& Chantal Bourassa, Action Research Laboratory, School of Social Work, Université
de Moncton
July 2005
"The two general objectives of the study were
to gain a better understanding of (1) the reality of Francophone social assistance
recipients in New Brunswick, and (2) the successes and difficulties encountered
in implementing the new mechanisms, policies, and programs associated with the
1995 reform of the social assistance system. The findings of this study arose
from a series of five group interviews conducted with Francophone social assistance
recipients in the southeastern and northern regions of the province in the summer
and fall of 2004. (...)We describe a few aspects of the social assistance system
(income levels, programs and benefit rates, eligibility procedures) and present
a few characteristics of the provincial profile of social assistance recipients
(number of households on social assistance, distribution of recipients by type
of household and benefit rate). "
- highly recommended, excellent resource
on welfare reforms in New Brunswick!
2004
Report Card on the Status of Women in New Brunswick
March
8, 2004
"Fully 75% of New Brunswick women with preschoolers were in the
labour force in 2002, a jump from 70% the previous year. The 2004 Report Card
on the Status of Women in N.B. released today by the Advisory Council on the Status
of Women notes that N.B. has a higher rate than the Canadian average of 70% for
women with preschoolers. The majority (60%) of lone mothers with preschoolers
were also out working for pay in N.B. in 2002."
Media
Release (Word file - 25K, 2 pages)
2004
Report Card (PDF file - 1.76MB, 76 pages)
Poster
(PDF file - 179K, 1 page)
Factsheets
(small PDF files, one-pagers) :
* Women in the labour force * Violence
* Youth * Aboriginal Women in NB * Woman with Disabilities
[ Women's
Issues ]
[ Executive Council
Office ]
Documents
of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women - includes links to earlier
report cards as well as to annual reports of the Council and reports on a variety
of topics, including the legal aspects of common-law relationships, sexual health,
child care, income assistance, women and voting, the pay gap, single parents,
and much more.
Issues
- links to overviews of 45 issues affecting women in New Brunswick, many including
links to more detailed info
Minister
releases wage gap report
New Brunswick Status of Women
News
Release
December 5, 2003
"The final report of the New Brunswick wage
gap round table was released today by Training and Employment Development Minister
Margaret-Ann Blaney, Minister responsible for the Status of Women. The report
recommends that the government lead a five-year action plan consisting of voluntary
measures to address the wage gap in the public and private sectors."
Complete report:
Closing
New Brunswick’s Wage Gap:
An Economic Imperative - PDF file
(1.5MB, 101 pages)
2002
Report Card on the Status of Women in New Brunswick
March 2002
"A
statistical profile of women in New Brunswick: Population, Education and Training,
Income and Poverty, Family Responsibilities, Labour Force, Violence, Positions
of Influence, Provincial Government Employees."
Other
New Brunswick Sites
New resource
from the
Canadian Council on Social Development:
(May
25, 2009)
Restoring
Hope or Treading Water? (PDF - 263K, 19 pages)
By Kurt Peacock
University of New Brunswick (Saint John)
[ version
française - PDF ]
Source:
Poverty
Reduction Policies and Programs
Social Development Report Series, 2009
[
Canadian Council on Social Development ]
Also
from CCSD :
Poverty
Reduction Policies and Programs in Canada (PDF - 341K, 29 pages)
By
David I. Hay, Information Partnership
Related
links ===> Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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Homeless
in Moncton: New report card
March 24, 2009
By Michael Shapcott
A
total of 725 people were homeless in Moncton, New Brunswick, according to the
2008 homelessness report card from the Greater Moncton Homelessness Steering Committee.
Among other items, the report notes that 30 people sleep on mats on the floor
at one hostel every night, including pregnant women.
Source:
Wellesley
Institute Blog
[ Wellesley Institute
]
Related
links:
Experiencing
Homelessness
The First Report Card on Homelessness in Greater Moncton, 2008
(PDF - 723K, 6 pages)
Greater
Moncton Homelessness Steering Committee
The Greater Moncton Homelessness
Steering Committee (GMHSC) is an inter-agency committee representing all agencies
in Greater Moncton that work with the homeless population and those at risk of
becoming homeless.
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11,000
Atlantic millionaires and 77,000 households
mired in debt: Rich-poor gap grows
as region loses wealth
September 2008
Press
Release
A new report entitled Financial Security and Debt in Atlantic Canada
examines trends in household wealth since the 1980s—in Canada as a whole
and in the Atlantic region. In particular, it looks at trends in wealth distribution,
including Atlantic Canada’s share of national wealth and in the portion of
wealth owned by the top, middle and lower wealth groups.
Financial
Security and Debt in Atlantic Canada
September 2008
By Kimberley
Tran and Ronald Colman
Complete
report (PDF - 7.1MB, 136 pages)
Source:
GPI
Atlantic
GPIAtlantic is an independent, non-profit research and education
organization committed to the development of the Genuine Progress Index (GPI)
– a new measure of sustainability, wellbeing and quality of life.
Related
link:
Poverty
issue still percolating
Editorial
September 8, 2008
The
latest report from GPI Atlantic on poverty in the region reaches back 21?2 millennia
to quote Aristotle’s observation that “revolutions arise from inequalities.”
That’s followed with a more contemporary reference to 2005 riots in France,
“a poignant reminder of the potential consequences of marginalizing the poorest
households.”
Source:
The Cape
Breton Post
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