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From Food Banks Canada:
Hunger
Count 2011 (PDF - 4.2MB, 36 pages)
A comprehensive report on hunger and food bank use in Canada, and recommendations
for change
Selected HungerCount Information 1999-2011 (Microsoft Excel 2007 file - 626K)
Chart
: Food bank use in Canada (March 2011)
Food Banks Canada has released data detailing how many Canadians used food banks
across the country in March 2011. Hover over the chart to read how many people
used food banks in each province that month, and what percentage of those people
were children.
Provincial
HungerCount 2011 Reports
Click this link to access all HungerCount reports for 2011 as well as reports
for 2008 to 2010.
NOTE: HungerCount 2011 reports are available for the following provinces only:
* British Columbia * Alberta * Saskatchewan * Manitoba * Ontario * Nova Scotia
Source:
Food Banks Canada
Food Banks Canada is the national charitable organization representing and supporting
the food bank community across Canada. Our Members and their respective agencies
serve approximately 85% of people accessing food banks and food programs nationwide.
Our mission is to help food banks meet the short-term need for food, and to
find long-term solutions to hunger.
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Media coverage:
Food
bank use stays high
November 1, 2011
Food bank use across Canada remained more than 25 per cent above pre-recession
levels in March, the group representing food banks said Tuesday. Food Banks
Canada said an annual survey of its members showed a slight decrease in the
number of food recipients from the same month a year earlier — two per
cent to 851,014 — but little change over all. The steady numbers show the
effects of recession are still being felt across Canada, and the organization
says that means economic recovery isn't working for everyone.
Source:
CBC News
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Stretched
food banks a measure of Canada’s frail recovery
By Tavia Grant
November 1, 2011
The number of Canadians using food banks has declined slightly, but persistent
demand indicates many are struggling in a frail economic recovery. More than
851,000 individuals visited a food bank in March alone, a number that’s
little changed from last year’s record and still 26 per cent above prerecession
levels, Food Banks Canada’s annual survey, to be released Tuesday, shows.
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Related Globe and Mail articles:
* Feed
a student, feed the future
* Food
bank use drops, but still higher than before recession
* It's
time to close Canada's food banks
Source:
Globe and Mail
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Young
parents squeezed for time and money, report finds
A University of British Columbia study found that it's much more expensive to
raise a family than it was a generation ago.
October 18, 2011
By Andrea Gordon
Canadian parents are raising children with far less money and time than their
baby boomer predecessors, despite the doubling of the Canadian economy since
1976, says a report from the University of British Columbia. At the same time,
Canadians approaching retirement are wealthier than ever before, setting up
an intergenerational tension that threatens young families, according to the
study, released Tuesday.
Source:
Toronto Star
The report:
Does
Canada work for all generations?
By Paul Kershaw and Lynell Anderson
October 18, 2011
National
Summary (PDF - 814K, 4 pages) / (Version
française - format PDF)
Fact
Sheet
Excerpt from
the national summary report:
Canada is not currently working for all generations. There is a silent generational
crisis occurring in homes across the country, one we neglect because Canadians
are stuck in stale debates. My colleagues and I hope the 2011 Family Policy
Reports for all provinces will refocus public dialogue on one of the most pressing
social and economic issues of our time: Canada has become a far more difficult
place to raise a family.
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Provincial Family Policy Reports:
NOTE: The provincial files below are in
PDF format; each file is just under 2MB and 22 pages in length.
* Alberta
* British
Columbia
* Manitoba
* Newfoundland
and Labrador
* New
Brunswick
* Nova
Scotia
* Ontario
* Prince
Edward Island
* Quebec
Related resources:
* New
Deal for Families blog
* YouTube
video "New Deal for Families"
Source:
Human Early Learning Partnership
The Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary
research network, based at the University of British Columbia. HELP’s unique
partnership brings together many scientific viewpoints to address complex early
child development (ECD) issues. HELP connects researchers and practitioners
from communities and institutions across B.C., Canada, and internationally.
[ University of British Columbia ]
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From the
National Council of Welfare:
Welfare
Incomes 2010
September 2011
The Welfare Incomes report reflects the estimated incomes (in constant and current
dollars) for 2010 of four typical welfare households in each province and territory:
- a single employable person
- a single person with a disability
- a lone parent with a 2-year-old child
- a two-parent family with two children aged 10 and 15
Click the link above, then move your cursor over each province or territory
to view welfare incomes by household type for 2010 .
Click on a province or territory to see a chart of welfare incomes over time
for that jurisdiction. This feature requires Macromedia Flash; if you don't
have Flash or if you've disabled it, click the link below the map of Canada
to access the same information in HTML.
Adequacy
of Welfare Incomes
Compare welfare benefit levels for all jurisdictions and all household categories
for all years from 1986 (1989 for a person with a disability) to 2010 using
any one of five measures of adequacy: After-tax average income - After-tax LICO
- After-tax median income - Before-tax LICO - Market basket measure (MBM).
Earlier editions of Welfare Incomes (annual)
Source:
National Council
of Welfare
[ Conseil national du bien-être
social ]
Since the Government Organization Act of 1969, the National Council of Welfare
serves as advisory group to the federal Minister responsible for the welfare
of Canadians - in 2010, that's the Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources
and Skills Development Canada - regarding "any matter relating to social
development that the Minister may refer to the Council for its consideration
or that the Council considers appropriate."
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Current
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Home Page Social Policy Research
Unit (SPR) [ School of Social
Work - University of Regina ]
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Department responsible
for welfare Name
of the welfare program Legislation
Policy
Manual Welfare statistics Welfare rates (benefits) Latest
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Government
Telephone Directory
Departments,
Agencies, Crown Corporations
Saskatchewan
News Release Archive
Saskatchewan
Pension Plan
Documents
& Publications
Saskatchewan's Queen's Printer
Freelaw
"Freelaw® is free, unlimited access to up-to-date electronic
versions of all Government of Saskatchewan Public and Private Acts, Regulations,
The Saskatchewan Gazette, Forms, Rules of Court and Historical legislation
- all fully downloadable and searchable in Portable Document Format (PDF)"
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Legislative
Assembly
Assembly
Publications - Hansard, Journals Papers, Bills
Members,
including links to Liberal and NDP Caucus pages
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Department
of Social Services
(name changed Nov/07, formerly
Community
Resources)
- incl. links to : * Services for Children
and Families /* Services for People with Disabilities * Services for Low-income
People * About Saskatchewan * About Government * About Social Services * Archived
News Releases * Common Questions * Ministry Overview * Forms & Publications
* Legislation * Office of Disability Issues * Programs & Services * Saskatchewan
Housing * much more...
Social Services is the Department responsible for welfare
in Saskatchewan.
For key links to information about welfare in Saskatchewan, scroll back
up this page to the grey section.
Saskatchewan welfare
caseload information (PDF - 200K, 22 pages)
[Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings for Monday November
8, 2010.]
See Appendix I "Questions and Answers" starting on the fourth
page of text for caseload information from March to September 2010.
NOTE : This information is provided in question-and-answer format. Unless
you're familiar with Saskatchewan's mix of income support programs, your
head will spin from all the SIPs, SAPs, TEAs and SAIDs. Use the
Saskatchewan section of the Key Welfare Links page of this website to
translate the acronyms and to find relevant program information to help
you to understand the statistics.
NOTE to the nice folks in Saskatchewan
Social Services:
Please consider joining the six provinces that are now uploading current
welfare statistics to their websites (Newfoundland and Labrador, New
Brunswick, Québec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia). If
Saskatchewan Social Services posted their welfare stats to their website,
that would make life so much easier for social researchers of every stripe.
See why Welfare
statistics are Important! - including links to
the types of welfare statistics that are currently available from provinces
across Canada. Join the movement, won't you?
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Saskatchewan
Community Resources
2006-2007 Annual Report (PDF file - 816K, 33 pages)
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Selected news releases:
New
exemption will benefit people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities
News
Release
September 4, 2008
Individuals with disabilities and parents of
children with disabilities in Saskatchewan will be able to better plan for the
future, following the exemption of Registered Disability Savings Plans (RDSPs)
from social assistance calculations. The exemption means that RDSP assets and
income - including funds withdrawn for payment to a beneficiary - will not be
included when determining eligibility for the Saskatchewan Assistance Program.
Source:
Saskatchewan
Social Services
[ Government of Saskatchewan
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Context:
In the determination
of financial eligibility for needs-tested welfare or disability benefits,
each
province and territory decides how it will treat assets and income from various
sources, both at the point of application and on an ongoing basis.
Related link:
Saskatchewan
Exempts the RDSP
September 4, 2008
Exciting news! Yet another
province has decided to exempt the RDSP from affecting Disability Benefits. Saskatchewan
put out a news release earlier today from the Ministry of Social Services indicating
that the RDSP will not affect the calculations for those receiving social assistance,
exempting both the RDSP as an asset and income. (...) This a a very exciting development
for people in Saskatchewan as it now means they, along with BC, Newfoundland,
and Yukon, can fully utilize the benefits that the RDSP provides.
Source:
Registered
Disability Savings Plan Blog --- everything you wanted to know about the
RDSP....
The RDSP Blog is a product
of the
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN)
PLAN is a non-profit organization, established in 1989
by and for families committed to future planning and securing a good life for
their relative with a disability.
Recent posting on the RDSP Blog:
TOP
10 Reasons Provinces/Territories Should Exempt
the Registered Disability Savings
Plan (RDSP) as an Asset and Income
August 14, 2008
Province
Boosts Support for Vulnerable Children and Families
Foster families will be
getting more financial support
August 31, 2007
Foster families
will be getting more financial support, Community Resources Minister Kevin Yates
announced today. The funding is part of an $18 million package to increase support
for vulnerable children and families in the province.
Also from Community Resources:
Government
provides support for
housing costs and launches information line
News
Release
August 29, 2007
The provincial government is providing immediate
help to address rising housing costs through increased shelter allowances. (...)
The
changes include:
• increasing the shelter rate for most Social Assistance
Program and Transitional Employment Allowance recipients by $5 to $75 per month;
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increasing the Saskatchewan Rental Housing Supplement by $6 to $21 per month.
The supplement is available to lower-income families and people with disabilities,
including those who are working in lower paying jobs; and
• increasing the Provincial Training Allowance by $20 to $35 per month.
The allowance is available to people enrolled in adult basic education and
quick skills programs.
Related links:
Saskatchewan
shelter allowance hike inadequate, say critics
August 30, 2007
The
province is giving low-income people more money to cover their rent, but some
say with a housing crisis underway, it's not nearly enough. Combined allowances
and supplements are going up by amounts ranging from $11 to $96 a month, the Saskatchewan
government announced this week.
Source:
CBC
News
Sask.
residents to receive boost in welfare benefits
Lori Coolican,
August 30, 2007
Depending on their situation and where they live, some of Saskatchewan's
poorest residents will receive up to $96 more in monthly welfare benefits
starting Oct. 1. But others will get far less.
Source:
The Saskatoon StarPhoenix
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Moving
Forward: Google.ca News Search Results : "Canada,
Saskatchewan, child care agreement" For related links, go to the Government Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd.htm |
Office
of Disability Issues
- incl. links to : Information Materials - Employability
Assistance for People with Disabilities - Enablelink - Housing programs - Saskatchewan
Council on Disability Issues
Canada
and Saskatchewan Sign an Agreement to Assist People with Disabilities This agreement
was signed under the Multilateral
Framework for Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities, which
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Advanced Education, Employment and Labbour
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Minimum
Wage Increase Announced
News Release
October 3, 2007
"(...)The
increase will take place in three stages that will see the minimum wage move to
$8.25 per hour on January 1, 2008, to $8.60 on May 1, 2008 and to $9.25 per hour
on May 1, 2009. The minimum call out pay, which is three times the level of the
minimum wage, will also increase accordingly. An adjustment will also be made
to minimum wage in 2010 to bring the minimum wage to the Low Income Cut-off (LICO).
Along with this increase, legislation will be introduced that permits the minimum
wage to be indexed in future years annually on May 1, to the consumer price index.
Indexing the minimum wage beginning in 2010 will ensure that minimum wage workers
are able to maintain a standard of living equivalent to the LICO. ...) There are
approximately 12,400 minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan."
Source:
Saskatchewan
Labour
[ Government of Saskatchewan
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Related links:
Saskatchewan's
minimum wage earners get a boost
October 3, 2007
Source:
CBC
Saskatchewan
Minimum
wage raises mega reactions
October 4, 2007
Source:
Saskatoon
StarPhoenix
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Saskatchewan Consumer Price Index Summary
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Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs
Saskatchewan
takes action for children and Aboriginal youth in conjunction with the Social
Union Framework Agreement (December 17, 1999)
Results
of Indian Affairs Study Encouraging
Saskatchewan Social Services
September 1, 2000
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Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission
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Other Saskatchewan Sites - Autres sites de la Saskatchewan
(Mostly in reverse chronological order with the most recent addition at
the top)
Welfare
Incomes 2009 (PDF - 6.2MB, 117 pages)
December 2010
As the National Council of Welfare has done since 1986, in Welfare Incomes
2009 we look at the situation of four family types in each province and
territory: a lone parent with a 2-year-old child, a couple with two children
aged 10 and 15, a single person considered employable and a single person
with a disability.
[ News
Release - December 13, 2010 ]
Source:
National Council
of Welfare
The National Council of Welfare is an advisory group to the Minister of
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC). Its mandate is to
advise the Minister regarding any matter relating to social development
that the Minister may refer to the Council for its consideration or that
the Council considers appropriate.
For links to more Welfare Incomes 2009
resources (media coverage, interactive Welfare Incomes 2009 map, customized
charts, earlier editions, etc.),
jump directly to the Welfare rates section
of the Key Welfare Links page of this website:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/welfare.htm#rates
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The
Cost of Healthy Eating in Saskatchewan 2009:
Impact on Food Security (PDF - 1.3MB, 24 pages)
April 2010
Written by the Public Health Nutritionists of Saskatchewan Working Group
with the support of
Saskatchewan Regional Health Authorities
Source:
Food Secure Saskatchewan
Food Secure Saskatchewan is a coalition of individuals and groups working
toward, or interested in, achieving food security for all Saskatchewan citizens
by way of a healthy and sustainable food system. This coalition includes
community-based organizations, nutritionists, health professionals, hunger
groups, First Nations residents, government departments, community leaders,
farmers, producers, and others.
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Saskatchewan
Report Card on Child and Family Poverty
(PDF - 239K, 8 pages)
November 2009
* 35,000 Children in Poverty in Saskatchewan
* No Consistent Improvement Over Time
* Comparing Three Measures of Poverty
* Third Highest Provincial Child Poverty Rate
* 45% of Aboriginal Children in Low-Income Families
* More than One in Three Immigrant Children Poor
* 40% of Children in Female Lone-parent Families in Poverty
* Families Deeply in Poverty
* Saskatchewan Child Poverty Often Long Term
* One in Three Poor Children in Families with Full Employment
* Government Transfers Benefit Children
* Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor
* Child Poverty Rate High by International Standards
* Poverty Measures
Source:
Social Policy Research Unit
[ Faculty of Social Work
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[ University of Regina ]
Related link:
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Boom and Bust: The Growing Income Gap
in Saskatchewan
September 2009
Complete
report (PDF - 4.7MB, 59 pages)
Summary
(PDF - 130K, 19 pages)
For the past thirty years, the richest in the province have secured
the lion’s share of Saskatchewan’s economic growth, while those
at the lower end of the income spectrum have made few or no gains over the
same period. That is the conclusion of the Saskatchewan CCPA’s new
report: Boom and Bust: The Growing Income Gap in Saskatchewan.The report’s
author - Paul Gingrich retired professor of Sociology and Social Studies
at the University of Regina - finds that the gap between the richest and
poorest families in Saskatchewan has increased dramatically over the past
generation and has mushroomed since 2000 – during the best of economic
times.
Source:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Related link:
Wage disparity widens in Saskatchewan
[Expired link]
By Jason Warick
December 4, 2009
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May 25, 2009
New resource from the
Canadian Council on Social Development:
Poverty
Reduction Policies and Programs in Saskatchewan (PDF - 461K, 33 pages)
By Bill Holden, Nicola Chapin, Carmen Dyck and Nich Frasier
Community-University
Institute for Social Research
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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Campaign
2000
Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement to build
Canadian awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution
to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000.
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Health
Disparity in Saskatoon: Analysis to Intervention
o
Full
report (PDF - 10.3MB, 365 pages)
o Executive
Summary (PDF - 208K, 4 pages)
o 20-Page
Summary (PDF - 584K, 20 pages)
o Background/Context
and Letters of Support (PDF - 5.2MB,
79 pages)
o Chapter
1: Introduction (PDF - 639K, 18 pages)
o Chapter
2: Socioeconomic Status and Health Status in Saskatoon (PDF - 4MB,
141 pages)
o Chapter
3: Evidence Based Policy Options (PDF - 852K, 119 pages)
Source:
Saskatoon
Health Region
Saskatoon Health Region is one of the most complex and integrated
health delivery agencies in Canada, responsible for providing services ranging
from hospital and long term care to home care, public health and other community-based
programs.
Related media coverage
from the Saskatoon Star
Phoenix:
Report
tackles poverty
Health region study to propose solutions to reduce rich, poor
gap
By Janet French
November 14, 2008
A
massive report to be unveiled by the Saskatoon Health Region on Monday offers
dozens of potential solutions to alleviate poverty in Saskatchewan and reduce
the yawning gap between the health of the rich and the poor. In addition to drawing
a detailed picture of the health differences between Saskatoon's richest and poorest
residents, the 361-page document borrows successful social policies from around
the globe -- Ireland, Sweden, Britain, Seattle and even other Canadian provinces
-- and suggests how they could be applied here.
[ NOTE: the above article contains the notation : "FIRST IN A SIX-PART SERIES", but there are no links on the Star Phoenix home page to a page with links to all six articles in the series. I found the following links to related articles by doing a search of the Star Phoenix using the search string "Health Disparity". ]
Province
takes steps to help poor, minister says
November 15, 2008
Income
reform: first step to improving health of Sask. poor, says report
November
15, 2008
Education
initiatives could help our health
November 17, 2008
Housing
the homeless could save millions of dollars
November 18, 2008
Health
report laudable, yet grandiose
November 18, 2008
Clinics
in poor areas won't solve problem alone
November 20, 2008
Source:
Saskatoon
Star Phoenix
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Social
Policy Research Unit (SPR) (University of Regina)
Established in
1972, the unit receives funding from the University and through various research
contracts and grants. SPR conducts critical analytic research to promote social
justice and enhance individual, family and community development.
- incl.
links to: About SPR - What's New - Research Associates - Research Projects - Research
Resources - Events - Publications
Source:
School
of Social Work - University of Regina
Here are a few sample reports:
WINNING
AND LOSING AT WELFARE:
SASKATCHEWAN AND CANADA, 1981-1989 (PDF
- 13.5MB, 57 pages)
By Graham Riches and Gordon Ternowetsky
September 1989
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includes three complete papers:
* Child Hunger and Family Poverty in Saskatchewan
: Broadening the Debate
* Who are the Real Welfare Bums?
* Welfare Reform
in Saskatchewan : Implications for the Poor, Labour and Social Work
Source:
Working
paper series (browse 21 reports by title)
Social
Policy Research Unit (formerly Social Administration Research Unit)
* 19
links to occasional papers
* Child
poverty report cards for Saskatchewan - 2000 to 2006
[ Faculty
of Social Work ]
[ University
of Regina ]
Saskatchewan
child poverty report card 2006 [pdf, 8pp, 127KB]
November 24, 2006
Related Links from Campaign 2000:
Canada’s
Child Poverty Levels not Budging -
New report shows child poverty “entrenched” in Canada over 25
Years
Campaign 2000
23 November 2006
The rate of child and family poverty in Canada has been stalled at 17-18%
over the past 5 years despite strong economic growth and low unemployment,
according to a new report by Campaign 2000.
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Transitional
Employment Allowance, Flat Rate Utilities,
Rental Housing Supplements and Poverty in Saskatchewan
(PDF file - 609K, 36 pages)
October 2005
"This paper examines (...) recent program changes in Saskatchewan as
part of the neo-liberal response to the new global economy and its search
for cheaper, more flexible labour. The province is failing to support the
interests of the poor and is continuing down the path of compelling them
to undertake low wage employment."
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Current
Issues Surrounding Poverty and Welfare Programming in Canada : Two Reviews
(PDF file - 371K, 43 pages)
("Race to the Bottom: Welfare to Work Programming
in Saskatchewan and its Similarities to Programming in the United States and Britain")
By
Garson Hunter, Ph.D & Dionne Miazdyck, Research Assistant
August 2003
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interesting comparison of recent welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, Canada, the
U.S. and Britain
- includes a bonus ten-page article entitled Low Income
Cut-Offs (LICO) and Poverty Measurement (LICO, Market Basket Measure, etc.)
TIP===>
the appendix to this report (pp 27-31) presents a detailed comparison of the main
features of the Saskatchewan Assistance Plan (the old Saskatchewan welfare program)
and the new Transitional Employment Allowance.
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Welfare in Saskatchewan: A Critical Evaluation Even though I disagree fundamentally with the Fraser Institute's view on the "success" of welfare reforms in Saskatchewan, I feel it's important to share this information about how one faction of Canadian society feels about welfare reforms and social programs in general. The authors state that "[S]askatchewan politicians have chosen not to more fundamentally reform the welfare system, as other Canadian jurisdictions have", referring specifically to the deep welfare cuts in Alberta (1993), Ontario (1995) and BC (2002), provinces that they offer as models for Canadian welfare reform. Ironically, the National Council of Welfare (NCW) applauded the Saskatchewan government back in 1997 for exactly the same reason in Another Look at Welfare Reform : "Compared with some other provinces, Saskatchewan had done better for its welfare recipients by doing nothing." I wrote those words myself, in my role as as principal researcher for the NCW's welfare reform report, and I'm sure that even the harshest social critics of the government of Saskatchewan wouldn't argue that point about welfare in their province in the mid-to-late 1990s.
I suspect that the difference in perspective
is that the NCW represents the interests of disadvantaged Canadians
while the Fraser Institute speaks for the rich and the corporations National
Council of Welfare ("...advises the Minister [of Human Resources Development
Canada] on the needs and problems of low-income Canadians and on social and related
programs and policies which affect their welfare...") About
the Fraser Institute - "Founded in 1974 at a time when many Canadians
believed that government should be the principal source of growth and development
in the economy, the Institute has helped bring about a considerable shift in public
opinion in recognition of the importance of market competition." |
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Service
Canada Regional Information:
Saskatchewan
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
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Saskatchewan
Institute of Public Policy
The Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy
(SIPP) is a non-profit, independent, non-partisan institute at the University
of Regina committed to stimulating public policy debate and providing expertise,
research and analysis on social, economic, fiscal, environmental, and administrative
issues related to public policy.
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Saskatchewan
Office - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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Publications
Poor
in Saskatchewan need more than Transitional Employment Allowance: Complete report: Poor
need more than T.E.A.: Saskatchewan’s Building Independence Source: Saskatchewan
Office - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
Current
Issues Surrounding Poverty and Welfare Programming in Canada: Two Reviews
(PDF file - 338K, 49 pages) NOTE:
recommended reading - detailed info on welfare reforms in Canada and more specifically
in Saskatchewan, includes analysis of the National Child Benefit and Saskatchewan
NCB programs! |
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 Canada’s 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. "
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Community-University
Institute for Social Research
[ University
of Saskatchewan ]
"Off
Welfare … Now What?": A Literature Review on the Impact of Provincial
Welfare to
Work Training Programs in Saskatchewan
(PDF file - 449K, 37 pages)
by Carmen Dyck
October 2004
Community-University
Institute for Social Research
University of Saskatchewan
"This research
project seeks to understand the effects of Saskatchewan's government job training
programs, such as Jobs First, not only on poverty in Saskatchewan, but also on
participants in these programs. The provincial government claims that job training
programs have decreased the number of people living on social assistance, and
while this may be true, it does not capture the realities of people who have been
moved from assistance into job training programs or minimum wage full time jobs,
neither of which provide an adequate sustainable income. This report gathers and
evaluates the literature on welfare to work programs for both Saskatchewan and
Canada. It seeks to understand the difficulty of living on assistance rates, regardless
of whether they are called training benefits, transitional employment allowances,
or supplementary employment benefits, as well as the reality of living on minimum
wage, the differences for people in rural areas, and the disparities of these
programs for women and men."
Source:
Community-University
Institute for Social Research
- incl. links to : About CUISR - Research
Modules - Research Series - Publications - Resource Library - Other Resources
- Conferences & Seminars - Funding & Training - Employment - Search -
Contact Us
[ University of Saskatchewan
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Prairie
Women’s Health Centre of Excellence
"The Prairie Women’s
Health Centre of Excellence is one of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s
Health supported by the Women’s Health Bureau of Health Canada. The Centres
are dedicated to improving the health status of Canadian women by supporting policy-oriented,
and community-based research and analysis on the social determinants of women’s
health."
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.
Don't
We Count as People? Saskatchewan Social Welfare Policy and Women's Health
By
M. Kerr, D. Frost, D. Bignell and Equal Justice for All.
February 2004
"(...)
This project was part of a larger initiative sponsored by the Prairie Women's
Health Centre of Excellence to examine social assistance policies in Manitoba
and Saskatchewan, their impact on women's health, and women's access to justice
as recipients of social assistance. Seven focus groups
were held with 43 women living on social assistance in five of the eleven administrative
regions of Saskatchewan in April 2003. In focus group discussions, these women
described the daily reality of their lives and the impact of social assistance
policies on their physical and emotional health."
Executive
Summary
Complete
report (PDF file - 871K, 58 pages)
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