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Monica Townson
Old Age Security: Can We Afford It?
Download 169.46 KB4 pages Old Age Security (OAS) is the basic building block of Canada’s retirement income system. Canadians build on that foundation, saving for their retirement with benefits from…
Pension Breakdown
How the finance ministers bungled pension reform Download 788.41 KB 34 pages This study provides an analysis of the government’s proposed Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) program, and asserts that…
Options For Pension Reform
Expanding the Canada Pension Plan Download 146.62 KB8 pages…
A Stronger Foundation
Pension Reform and Old Age Security Download 146.13 KB7 pages…
What Can We Do About Pensions?
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Canadian women on their own are poorest of the poor
Only 9% of all Canadians were considered poor in 2007. It was the lowest rate of low income in 30 years. But that was before the recession hit last fall….
Women’s Poverty and the Recession
Download 662.41 KB54 pages This report by researcher Monica Townson draws attention to Canada’s shockingly high rates of women’s poverty and offers a strong critique of recent federal government policies…
Growing Older, Working Longer
The New Face of Retirement Download 119.91 KB 254 pages…
September 2004: A New “Social Architecture” For Canada?
Planned redesign of social programs could spur privatization Policy-makers are quietly and stealthily planning to redesign Canada’s social programs—or, in the jargon so popular in social policy circles, they are…
Pensions Under Attack
What’s Behind the Push to Privatize Public Pensions Download 74.53 KB Will privatizing public pension plans spell disaster for the elderly, or is it a bold idea for coping with…
A Report Card on Women and Poverty
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Canadian women among poorest of the poor
We used to hear a lot about the feminization of poverty. It hasn’t been in the news much lately. Yet women remain among the poorest of the poor in Canada,…
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