New Frontier Centre study recommends provinces drop restrictions on automobile ownership for Canadians on income assistance.
Welfare
EI Lessons From South Of The Border
“The Long-Term Effects of Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991,” found only 5.7% of male workers and 3.3% of female workers in Maine collected benefits in 1990. Cross the northern border into Canada and 29.5% of male workers and 29.7% of female workers were on the dole. The authors estimated more liberal benefits in N.B. accounted for two thirds of this difference. They also found that since 1982, the joblessness rate in N.B. has consistently been above 12% whereas the out-of-work rate in Maine has routinely been below 8%.
Mark Chamberlain, Entrepreneur, Business and Community Leader
Frontier talks to Mark Chamberlain about fighting poverty in Hamilton through “cross-sectoral collaboration”.
Thinking Before Spending Is Not “Ideology”
“Insofar as ideology goes, I agree: it has no place in public policy. And here’s an extra useful condition: ideology should be ignored not only in bad economic times but also when government coffers overflow. I’m all for doing what is sensible.”
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
The Velvet Glove Of Welfare Reform
Largely unheralded, a notable anniversary slipped quietly by in the third week of August. Five years have passed since Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton signed his country’s massive welfare reform package into law. How has it worked out?
A Conversation with David Beito
They were tremendously important. If you wanted to find where the center of community was in an urban neighbourhood or a small town you would often go to the lodge.
Singapore’s hands off welfare state
Born in Europe in the 19th century, most governments in the developed world have embraced the concept as a central public policy goal. People looked to the political system to deliver them from the extremes of poverty and misfortune.
Who’s Better Off With Alberta’s Welfare Reform?
A revealing study done by the Canada West Foundation of Calgary shows that the reforms implemented to get people off of welfare did not at all really affect previous welfare users negatively.