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Jesse Hajer
Fast Facts: Manitoba’s Losing its Edge:
It’s time to Reject Austerity First published in the Winnipeg Free Press March 3, 2020 January’s job numbers for Manitoba recently gained praise from Premier…
Fast Facts: Austerity Round Two
Manitoba’s Progressive Conservatives, led by Premier Brian Pallister, won the provincial election on September 10, albeit with a slightly smaller majority than they had going…
UNSPUN 2019: Taxes and Deficit in Manitoba
If there is one issue that has been front and centre in the agenda of the governing Manitoba Progressive Conservatives (PCs), it has been “fiscal…
Fast Facts: Increasing Benefits for Low-income Manitoba Renters through Rent Assist
“Can you find a home for $285?? This is what a single person gets on EIA (welfare). I think not!!!”. This was the text from…
Making Space for Change
The Story of Manitoba’s Rent Assist Benefit Download 844.87 KB 24 pages This paper documents some of the organizing history leading up to implementation of…
Fast Facts: Social Impact Bonds
A Costly Innovation First published by the Winnipeg Free Press January 16, 2019 Social Impact Bonds or ‘SIBs’ are a relatively new mechanism for governments…
Rising Tuition
Implications for Access and Career Choice for Manitoba Students Download 730.17 KB26 pages Governments in Canada have often turned to investments in higher education to…
Fast Facts: Will SIB’s Deliver Less for More in Manitoba
First published in the Winnipeg Free Press Saturday Nov 4, 2017 On Wednesday October 18th, the Province of Manitoba announced that it had hired the…
Freeze to Squeeze
Higher tuition puts pressure on Manitoba Families Governments have often turned to investments in higher education to generate hope and opportunity for young people and…
A Family Living Wage for Manitoba
2016-17 Update Download 407.39 KB 10 pages Families who work for low wages face impossilbe choices–buy food or heat the house, feed the children or…
Research for Communities: Home-ownership for Low-Income Households
Outcomes for families and communities Download 466.49 KB59 pages
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