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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."
Yukon Anti-Poverty
Coalition (YAPC)
The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition facilitates the elimination of poverty
in the Yukon through awareness, advocacy and action. We currently have more
than 160 members including members of the faith and business community,
individuals, politicians and non government agencies.
- incl. links to : News and Events * About Us * Myths * Make a Difference
* Contact Us
YAPC
NEWS - links to over a dozen related articles from YAPC
- Go to the Provincial and Territorial
Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
Since May 2010, ALL links to content concerning
poverty reduction strategies and campaigns have been moved to the above
page from the individual provincial/territorial pages, including government
and NGO links.
Social
inclusion and poverty reduction reports released
News Release
December 22, 2010
WHITEHORSE – The Yukon government today released two reports: the
Whitehorse Housing Adequacy Study and the Dimensions of Social Inclusion
and Social Exclusion in Yukon 2010 report, as part of the creation of
the Yukon Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Strategy.
The 2010
Whitehorse Housing Adequacy Study (PDF - 611K, 88 pages) was
designed to address a long-standing need for statistical information on
homelessness and housing challenges in the Whitehorse area. While it is
not intended to be representative of the whole Whitehorse population,
it provides a snapshot of a vulnerable sub-population during a specific
time period. (...) The survey was created by the Department of Health
and Social Services in partnership with the Yukon Bureau of Statistics
and the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition. (...)
Dimensions
of Social Inclusion and Social Exclusion in Yukon 2010 (PDF
- 1.3MB, 216 pages) is a rich compilation of data using social indicators
such as personal and community assets, access to necessities and participation
in society. These documents are the foundation that will provide the information
and evidence needed to develop the strategy.
Source:
Yukon Health and Social Services
- Go to the Provincial and Territorial
Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
Homeless
in the Homeland:
A Growing Problem For Indigenous People in Canada's North
November 2010
By Frances Abele, Nick Falvo and Arlene Haché*
Today, homelessness and inadequate housing in northern Canada disproportionately
afflicts Indigenous people. This is a striking fact in a region where
Indigenous people lived very independently (though of course not autarkicly)
until the second half of the twentieth century. In the years since then
both economic development and state initiatives have transformed their
lives.
Source:
Parity
Magazine : November 2010 "Homelessness and Dispossession" Edition
Parity is the national homelessness publication of the Council to Homeless
Persons in Australia
[ * Frances Abele is professor of Public Policy and Administration
at Carleton University, Ottawa. Nick Falvo is a doctoral candidate
in the same program. Arlene Haché is executive director
of the Yellowknife Women’s Society. ]
[ More
recent articles from Parity ]
[ Back issues of
Parity - back to 1998
]
Council to Homeless Persons (Australia)
Established in 1972, the Council to Homeless Persons is the peak Victorian
body representing individuals and organisations with a stake or interest in
homelessness.
From
Yukon Health and Social Services:
Yukon
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Strategy
- incl. links to : Updates | Links | About Us | Contact | Newsletters | Forum
| Symposium 2010 Videos
"(...) From increasing social assistance rates by over 25 per cent, doubling
and indexing the Yukon Seniors Income Supplement, increasing and indexing
the Pioneer Utility Grant, increasing Child Care Subsidies, increasing the
Yukon Child Benefit, constructing a residence for Single Parents—each
and every day that promise is renewed—a promise which ultimately is about
ending poverty and social exclusion."
[Excerpt from the
Minister's Message]
The Yukon Department of Health and Social Services
established the Office of
Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction (link contains contact info only)
in order to guide the development, implementation and on-going management
of YG's Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Strategy. Working in partnership
with other YG departments, the Business and NGO Community, the Office serves
as YG's central resource and lead on issues related to social inclusion and
poverty reduction.
Source:
Yukon Department of Health and Social
Services
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April 8, 2010
Social
Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Symposium 2010 - Symposium videos
(YouTube)
Thirty-six videos, most of which are 8-9 minutes in duration, cover the Symposium
held by Yukon Health and Social Services on April 8, 2010.
- includes presentations by Hugh Segal and Audrey McLaughlin, among others,
and discussion panels that accompanied each speaker
Topics covered in the videos include:
* Opening of Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction symposium
* Making poverty eradication job number 1: why it matters (excellent presentation
by Hugh Segal)
* Personal story on poverty
* Personal look at barriers
Poverty
Reduction in Yukon
NOTE: this link takes you to the Yukon section
of the
Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page of this site:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
Since May 2010, ALL links to content concerning
poverty reduction strategies and campaigns have been moved to the
above page from the individual provincial/territorial pages, including
government and NGO links.
|
Government - Gouvernement
Yukon
Legislative Assembly
- incl. links to : Members of the Legislative
Assembly - Order Paper - Progress of Bills - Blues (preliminary Hansard transcript)
- Yesterday's Hansard - Hansard
Government
of Yukon Legislation - links to statutes, regs, hansard, etc.
Department responsible for welfare
Dept. of Health and Social Services (HSS)
[See the Key Welfare Links in the grey box above. ]
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Social
Inclusion Strategy to Address Poverty Issues
News Release
October 14, 2009
WHITEHORSE – Health and Social Services Minister Glenn Hart announced today
the development of a social inclusion strategy for the territory. “A social
inclusion strategy is a significant advancement in social policy in Yukon. Social
inclusion ensures that services target those in need and are accessible for
all members of society,” Hart said. “Social inclusion is a measure
of any government on how it deals with those citizens in need of support.”
(...) There will be four phases in developing the strategy:
• Creating a collaborative process.
• Collecting data and consulting.
• Developing a strategy to address priorities from the data and consultations.
• Reviewing and reporting annually.
Source:
Yukon Health and Social Services
Related links:
Go to the Anti-poverty
Strategies and Campaigns page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
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Social
Assistance Reform Complete
News
Release
May 28, 2008
WHITEHORSE - Health and Social Services Minister Brad
Cathers today announced changes to the social assistance regulations that finalize
the government's Social Assistance Reform. (...) Changes to the regulations are
broad, and include providing an increased incentive to assist recipients in entering
the workforce, raising the amounts recipients receive for basic needs such as
food, shelter and clothing, and reducing red tape for persons with severe disabilities.
NOTE:
this news release includes a Social Assistance Backgrounder that explains changes
in the areas of earnings exemptions and services to people with disabilities,
and that compares social assistance benefit rates for single
people and for two-adult+two-children families in effect before and after July
2008.
Source:
Government
of Yukon
Families
and Children with Disabilities will Benefit from New Program
December
13, 2007
WHITEHORSE – Yukon children with disabilities and their families
will now benefit from a new program announced today by Health and Social Services
Minister Brad Cathers. The Services to Children with Disabilities Program will
be delivered within the Family and Children’s Services Branch of the department,
through a new unit called Family Supports for Children with Disabilities.Increase
to Yukon Child Benefit to Help Low-Income Families
Increase
to Yukon Child Benefit to Help Low-Income Families
December 6,
2007
WHITEHORSE – To assist low-income Yukoners with the costs of raising
their children, Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers announced today
an increase to the Yukon Child Benefit (YCB).
Proposed
Social Assistance Reforms Announced
November 28, 2007
WHITEHORSE
– Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers today announced proposed
changes to social assistance rates and program structures, resulting from the
most comprehensive review of social assistance conducted since the program’s
inception.
- proposed changes include (among others) increases to social assistance
rates, an incentive package to encourage social assistance recipients to enter
the workforce and a new program with enhanced services for persons with severe
disabilities who are eligible for social assistance.
Related
links:
Yukon
businesses applaud proposed social assistance changes
November
29
The Yukon's business community gave a thumbs-up Thursday to the territorial
government's proposed changes to its social assistance program, although some
say more can be done to help assistance recipients stay in the workforce. (...)
Health and Social Services Minister Brad Cathers said he is proposing to raise
social assistance rates by about 20 per cent, as well as offer financial incentives
to encourage recipients to enter the workforce.Cathers said the changes came from
a comprehensive review of the territory's social assistance program. The government
has to meet with federal authorities and First Nations before the changes can
be implemented.
Source:
CBC
<begin
social program researcher's lament/plea.>
There are some excellent government
websites about social assistance in the provinces and territories, but sadly,
Yukon's is not one of them. The only social assistance program information that
I can find on the Yukon Health and Social
Services website is a blurb
about the Pioneer Utility Grant for People over 65 and a Frequently-Asked
Questions page that barely touches on social assistance program details. (For
your info, there were about 1,100 people in receipt of welfare in March of 2005,
the latest figures I could find.) For links Yukon welfare caseload figures from
1995 to 2005 as well as to the Yukon Social Assistance Act and Regulations and
to Google.ca Web, news and blog search results pages, check the links in the grey
section on this page. On behalf of welfare researchers, may I say that it would
be greatly appreciated if the nice folks in Yukon Health and Social Services could
update their site to include more info on their social assistance program...
</end
social program researcher's lament/plea.>
Finance
Yukon
2011 Budget
February 3, 2011
- incl. links to all budget papers for all fiscal years back to 1998-99
2010-2011
Budget Address [ PDF - 184K]
2010-2011
Budget Highlights [ 47.30 KB]
2011-12
budget shows a healthy
savings account and invests in Yukon’s future
News Release
February 3, 2011
WHITEHORSE—The Government of Yukon’s 2011-12 Capital and Operations
and Maintenance budget, totalling $1 billion and $89 million, was tabled in
the legislative assembly today by Premier and Finance Minister Dennis Fentie.
(...) Yukon is the first jurisdiction in Canada to table a surplus budget, along
with a healthy savings account in 2011-12.
Source:
Yukon Department of Finance
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TD Bank Financial Group
Analysis of the Budget:
FOUR
CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF SURPLUSES
2011 Yukon Budget
February 2, 2011
The 2011 Yukon budget was released yesterday. In its package, the government
provided estimates for its medium-term fiscal plan. A deficit of $20 million
remains the target for FY 10-11. Four consecutive years of surpluses are then
anticipated in the amount of $38 million in FY 11-12, $29 million in FY 12-13,
$28 million in FY 13-14 and FY 14-15. These surpluses are in the order of 1-2%
of territorial GDP. By returning to fiscal order in FY 11-12, the territory
becomes the first jurisdiction in Canada to convert its deficit into a surplus.
In addition, the territory does not hold any debt, an accomplishment only Alberta
shares.
Source:
2011 Federal, Provincial
and Territorial Budgets
[ TD Bank Financial Group ]
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Media:
Yukon
tables $1B pre-election budget
February 3, 2011
Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie has released his third $1-billion budget, as his
Yukon Party government prepares for an election later this year.
Source:
CBC Canada North
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- Go to the 2011 Canadian Government Budgets Links page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/budgets_2011.htm
Education
Yukon
Bureau of Statistics
Women's
Directorate
Other Yukon Sites - Autres sites du Yukon
Yukon
Provincial Election Resources
No set date for the next territorial election
Source:
Election Almanac
- complete coverage of federal, provincial and territorial elections in Canada
including election results, public opinion polls, ridings and candidates, election
news, electoral history, links, and more
- 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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May 25, 2009
New resource from the Canadian Council on
Social Development:
Poverty
Reduction Policies and Programs in the Yukon (PDF - 1.7MB, 33 pages)
By Natalie EdelsonSource:
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
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 (PDF - 6.75MB, 134 pages)
- large file, 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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Version française:
Un
autre regard sur la réforme du bien-être social
Source:
Conseil national
du bien-être social
|
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)
Yukon Government Response to the U.N. List of Issues
- WORKink
Yukon - "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
-
- Service
Canada Regional Information:
British Columbia and Yukon
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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