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Social assistance: Do higher benefit levels lead to higher caseloads?
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Tax cuts won’t fix the affordability problem. Here are ten things that could.
Investment Annual cost Expand affordable child care $3 Billion Increase health care funding to keep pace with rising provincial health care costs $1.98 Billion Ensure…
Ten things to know about social assistance in Alberta
This is part two of a two-part blog series on social assistance. Part one, which looks at social assistance across Canada, can be accessed here.…
Ten things to know about social assistance in Canada
Ron Kneebone (Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary) and Katherine White (Yukon’s Deputy Finance Minister) have referred to social assistance as “the final…
L’après PL 70 : gare à la hauteur de la barre à l’aide sociale
Malgré des mois d’objections et de propositions fondées venues de toutes parts, le gouvernement sera resté inflexible dans sa détermination d’introduire de nouvelles obligations et…
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