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Vol. 17, #3 - Social Assistance Review Discussion Paper 2: Missed opportunity, even backsliding, as austerity agenda looms
February 2012
“Missing opportunity, even backsliding, as austerity agenda looms” is the headliner of the commentary of Poverty Free Ontario’s latest bulletin. Community Dispatch shares this bulletin because it is important. It gives voice to the frustrations of the thousands of testimonies given by people to the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance. This bulletin speaks directly to the concerns of many organizations and individuals working with low income people. They have been, and are, witness to the struggle where inadequate benefit levels lead to monthly cycles of chronic hunger among social assistance recipients creating health consequences for the individual and economic costs to society. They are witness to a labour market where more people are looking for jobs than the number of jobs that exits. They are witness to the search for good jobs with pay and benefits that move individuals and their families out of poverty that provide opportunity and inclusion in a community. Community Development Halton believes that the transformation of social assistance is a moral imperative beyond threats of austerity.
Joey Edwardh
Executive Director
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Vol. 17, #2 - The Nonprofit Sector: Overview Of Labour Force Trends And Conditions
January 2012
Introduction
The nonprofit sector has experienced many challenges in the last decade including increased funding shortages, increased demands for service and more recently, recessionary times which continue to challenge the sector. Over the past few years studies on the nonprofit labour force present similar challenges. Using the results of the 2006 study, Pushing The Limits, as a starting place, this Community Dispatch looks at subsequent research on the nonprofit labour force to see what has changed in the sector, if anything much at all.
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