Canadian Social Research Newsletter
January 10, 2010
Welcome to the weekly Canadian Social Research Newsletter,
a listing of the new links added to the Canadian Social Research Links
website in the past week.
The
e-mail version of this week's issue of the newsletter is going out to 2,187 subscribers.
IN THIS ISSUE:
Canadian
content
1. Tactical diminishment : even The Globe finds Harper's prorogation
ploy insulting (Globe and Mail) - January 7
2. We can't afford not to take on poverty
(Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal in the Ottawa Citizen) - January 7
3. A Cause
for the Century : invest more money in programs that help women and girls (Canadian
Crossroads International) - January 7
4. [Ontario] The poor-bashing
bandwagon (Straight Goods)- January 6
5. How did the just society become
just don't care? (Toronto Star) - January 6
6. New Brunswick
to raise minimum wage to $10 in April (CBC New Brunswick) - January
5
7. Toronto-Dominion Bank's Direct Deposit Initiative keeps social assistance
cheques out of hands of pricey payday lenders (Toronto Star) - January
5
8. A Soft Landing : Recession and Canada’s 100 Highest Paid CEOs
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) - January 4
9. Child welfare
for natives (Reuel Amdur in The Canadian Charger) - January 3
10. World
Legal Systems (University of Ottawa)
11. Reminder : Calls for proposals/papers
for upcoming guaranteed annual income conferences (Montreal, Sao Paulo)
12.
Livable Income (guaranteed income)For Everyone (LIFE)
13. What's New in The
Daily [Statistics Canada]:
--- Labour Force Survey, December 2009 -
January 8
--- Employment, Earnings and Hours October 2009 - January
5
14. What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (Toronto) -
January 9
International content
15. Poverty Dispatch: U.S. media coverage
of social issues and programs (Institute for Research on Poverty - U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
16. Australian Policy Online - recent content
17. CRINMAIL (children's rights
newsletter)
Have
a great week!
Gilles
************************
Gilles Séguin
Canadian
Social Research Links
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net
| 1. Tactical diminishment : even The Globe finds Harper's prorogation ploy insulting-
January 7 (Globe and Mail) |
Tactical diminishment
Canadians are
right to wonder how the Prime Minister's
insulting prorogation ploy fits
with the Conservative commitment to restore public trust in government
January 7, 2010
Globe editorial
It took a week, but Prime
Minister Stephen Harper has finally deigned to answer questions about his decision
to prorogue Parliament until March. In an interview with the CBC's Peter Mansbridge,
Mr. Harper called it a "fairly standard procedure," and a "routine constitutional
matter." While Mr. Harper has set no constitutional precedent, the manner of the
prorogation, and its effect, are neither standard or routine. His actions constitute
an insult to Parliament, including to Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, and
can serve only to diminish Canada's national institutions. It is a high price
to pay for a minor tactical convenience.
Source:
The
Globe and Mail
Related links:
No
Prorogue!
On December 30th, 2009, for the second time in as many years,
Stephen Harper has asked the Governor General to prorogue parliament. Governor
General Michaelle Jean obliged effectively shutting down Parliament until March.
Parliament was due to re-convene on January 25th. As a result of the prorogation,
many bills will not be passed and parliamentary committees will have to start
from scratch.
What we can do:
* Join the
Facebook Group that started it all.
* Tell your MP you want them
at work in Ottawa on January 25th – as scheduled.
* Attend
a rally - (see the list of events from Halifax to Yellowknife)
* Share
this website with your friends and family (use the Facebook Share button)
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Canada's
Parliament : Harper goes prorogue
Parliamentary scrutiny may be tedious,
but democracies cannot afford to dispense with it
January 7,
2010
CANADIAN ministers, it seems, are a bunch of Gerald Fords. Like the American
president, who could not walk and chew gum at the same time, they cannot, apparently,
cope with Parliament’s deliberations while dealing with the country’s
economic troubles and the challenge of hosting the Winter Olympic games.
Source:
The Economist
---
"Prorogation of parliament" Google News Search Results page
| 2.
We can't afford not to take on poverty - January 7 (Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal in the Ottawa Citizen) |
We
can't afford not to take on poverty
By Art Eggleton and Hugh Segal
January 7, 2010
A fter two years of study and until
recently nearly a decade of unprecedented economic growth in Canadian cities,
we were hoping to tell Canadians that we are winning the fight against poverty
in Canada. Sadly we cannot. Despite the many thoughtful
efforts by governments, community groups and the private sector, far too many
Canadians continue to live below any measure of a poverty line, live without a
home, and struggle to provide the basic necessities for their families. The
system that is supposed to help lift people out of poverty is substantially broken,
entraps people in poverty and needs a complete overhaul. (...) Poverty
expands health-care costs and policing burdens, and diminishes educational outcomes.
This in turn depresses productivity, economic expansion and social progress, all
of which takes place at huge cost to taxpayers, and the robust potential of our
economy.
[ Art Eggleton is chair of the Senate Sub-committee
on cities. Hugh Segal is vice-chair. ]
Source:
Ottawa
Citizen
In case you missed it:
In
From the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness
(PDF - 3.8MB, 290 pages)
The Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs,
Science and Technology
Report of the Subcommittee on Cities
The Honourable
Art Eggleton P.C., Chair
The Honourable Hugh Segal, Deputy Chair
December
2009
[ version
française (PDF - 4,5Mo., 331 pages) ]
Executive
Summary
* Evidence * Poverty * Poverty reduction strategies * Employment
Insurance * Training and education * Health * Income transfers through the tax
system * Housing and homelessness * Programs targeted to over-represented groups
* Rights-based approaches * Common cause * Knowledge exchange
Source:
Subcommittee
on Cities
[ Standing
Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology ]
- Go to the Anti-poverty Strategies and Campaigns page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/antipoverty.htm
| 3. A Cause for the
Century : invest more money in programs that help women and girls - January
7 (Canadian Crossroads International) |
A Cause
for the Century
The world has the opportunity to make real reductions
in poverty by investing more money in programs that help women and girls.
By Karen Takacs
Executive Director, Canadian Crossroads International
January 7, 2010
If the world invests in women and girls, women and girls will
take care of the world. So said American activist Jane Roberts. The connection
between women’s human rights, gender equality, and social and economic development
is well documented. At Canadian Crossroads International we’ve seen this
first hand – from West African women who have moved from subsistence living
to making a living wage through CCI-supported cooperatives producing shea butter,
soap, and textiles, to members of CCI-supported Bolivian communal banks where
women like Martha Ali reflect, “My children study with what I earn.”
The investment is modest, but the difference made in the lives of women and their
families is almost incalculable.
Source:
The
Mark - News and Perspectives Daily
Related link:
Canadian
Crossroads International
Canadian Crossroads International (CCI)
is an international development organization that is reducing poverty, mitigating
the impact of HIV and AIDS and increasing women’s rights around the world.
Working with local partners in 28 projects, in eight countries and supported by
hundreds of volunteers each year, Crossroads leverages expertise and resources,
North and South, required to help people overcome poverty and assert their human
rights.
[ See: Fighting Poverty
through local economic development ]
- Go to the Links to International Sites about Women's Social Issues page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/womeninternat.htm
| 4. [Ontario] The poor-bashing bandwagon - January 6 |
Ontario
The poor-bashing bandwagon
When times get tough, politicians deflect attention by blaming social assistance
recipients.
January 06, 2010
by Jamie Swift
Sobering facts
about social assistance:
1. Our most vulnerable neighbors, relying on social
assistance, would need a 55 per cent benefit increase to regain the meager incomes
that public provision offered in 1993.
2. The welfare system has more than
800 rules and regulations that by law must be applied before a needy person's
eligibility and benefit level can be determined.
3. In 2003 a report for Ottawa's
Justice Department pointed out that every year corporate crime, white collar fraud
and tax evasion cost Ontario more than its entire welfare system.
(...) We
are again living through difficult economic times, with high unemployment and
low benefits for the jobless. Two of five working women have precarious, poorly-paid
jobs with no security or benefits. Women make up 60 percent of minimum wage workers.
Meanwhile, only 39 percent of unemployed women are getting Employment Insurance.
No wonder the majority of social assistance claimants are women!
Source:
Straight Goods - Canada's
consumer and news watchdog
Straight Goods is a watchdog working for Canadian
consumers and citizens. The purpose of Straight Goods is to help you save money,
protect your rights and untangle spin with investigative reports, features, forums,
archives, and links to many others who share our values.
- Go to the Ontario Municipal and Non-Governmental Sites (D-W) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/onbkmrk3.htm
| 5. How
did the just society become just don't care? - January 6 (Toronto Star) |
How
did the just society become just don't care?
One in an occasional series in which Canadian thinkers challenge
the faltering
federal Liberal party to do some fresh thinking in advance
of a policy conference slated for March.
By Sherri Torjman, Ken Battle and
Michael Mendelson
[ Caledon Institute
of Social Policy ]
January 6, 2010
"(...) Poverty is the symptom of
an unsettling malaise – a poverty of passion. Canada can be so much greater
than just a society. The Liberals should use their upcoming conference as a significant
moment to reclaim their vision and their voice. It's time for the Liberals to
rekindle the flame for a nation that cares about its citizens."
Source:
Toronto Star
Related
articles
in this Toronto Star series:
*
'Tough on crime' stance
needs scrutiny
January
3/10
Increasing jail
time may have political appeal but it accomplishes little. To limit crime, Liberals
need to consider what works, not what sounds good
*
Canada must sit at international
table
December 30/09
We have moved to the sidelines under the Harper government.
To restore our crumbling image abroad, Michael Ignatieff must shape a convincing
Liberal response to global upheavals
* How to sell a (gasp!) tax
hike
December 30/09
Restoring
the GST to 7% will go a long way toward fighting Ottawa's ballooning deficit.
That's just good economics. Ignatieff's challenge is to make it good politics,
too, and persuade consumers (read: voters) to buy into it.
*
Redefining Canada's Liberal
party
December 27/09
Priorities of
equality and community should guide its future progressive agenda
- Go to the Social Research Organizations (I) in Canada page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/research.htm
| 6.
New Brunswick to raise minimum wage to $10 in April - January 5 (CBC New Brunswick) |
N.B.
to raise minimum wage to $10
January 5, 2010
New Brunswick is
sticking with its plan to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour over the next
20 months — with one of the increases coming in the middle of the government's
September re-election campaign. But Labour Minister Donald Arseneault said the
minimum wage is not about politics. "To bring our minimum wage to the Atlantic
average by September 2011 is a priority issue for our province if we are going
to reduce the level of poverty in our province," Arseneault said Tuesday. About
four per cent of New Brunswick workers earn the minimum wage.
The wage will
rise in four steps:
* April 1, 2010: an increase of 25 cents to $8.50 per
hour.
* Sept. 1, 2010, an increase of 50 cents to $9 per hour.
* April
1, 2011: an increase of 50 cents to $9.50 per hour.
* Sept. 1, 2011: an increase
of 50 cents to $10 per hour.
Source:
CBC
New Brunswick
______________________________
How
does that compare
with other Canadian jurisdictions?
Current
And Forthcoming Minimum Hourly Wage Rates For Adult Workers in Canada
(this is the BEST resource for info on current
and upcoming minimum wage levels by province/territory)
Minimum Hourly
Wages for Canadian Adult Workers since 1965
This information is broken
up into five files - one for each decade.
The link above takes you to the
latest decade (2005 to 2014); click the date links at the top of the page for
pages for earlier decades.
NOTE: Several other
jurisdictions have either recently increased their minimum wage level or will
be doing so in the coming months.
Highlights:
* Newfoundland and Labrador
increased its minimum wage from $9.00 to $9.50 as of January 1.
* Nova Scotia
will increase its minimum wage twice this year - in April and October. The current
level is $8.60, increasing to $9.65 as of October.
* Ontario's minimum wage,
currently $9.50, will increase to $10.25 at the end of March.
* Since 2007,
Yukon increases its minimum wage each April to match increase in the Consumer
Price Index for the City of Whitehorse.
For more information, see Minimum Hourly
Wages, 2005-2014 (this is the same link as above)
Source:
Minimum
Wage Database
[ Employment
Standards Legislation in Canada ]
[ Labour
Program, Human Resources and Social Development Canada ]
-
Go to the New Brunswick Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/nbkmrk.htm
- Go to the Minimum Wage /Living Wage Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/minwage.htm
| 7. Toronto-Dominion
Bank's Direct Deposit Initiative keeps social assistance cheques out of hands
of pricey payday lenders - January 5 (Toronto Star) |
Kudos
to the Toronto-Dominion Bank and other Canadian financial
institutions that
are offering a range of financial services to low-income Canadians!
BOO
to Moneymart-style predatory lending practices!
TD takes poor into account : Direct Deposit Initiative
keeps social
assistance cheques out of hands of pricey payday lenders
By
Rita Trichur
January 5, 2010
Toronto-Dominion Bank is using an innovative
pilot program that specifically targets low-income earners as new clients –
a financial intervention of sorts to prevent those folks from cashing their social
assistance cheques at costly payday lenders. Canada's second-largest bank has
set up kiosks in some government offices in British Columbia to reach out to these
vulnerable consumers and snag them as customers just as they receive their welfare
cheques. In some cases, civil servants are now simply referring clients to the
closest TD branch.
Source:
Toronto Star
-
Go to the Banks and Business Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bookmrk3.htm
- Go to the BC Government Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk.htm
- Go to the Non-Governmental Sites in British Columbia (A-C) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk2.htm
| 8. A Soft
Landing : Recession and Canada’s 100 Highest Paid CEOs - January 4 (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) |
Soft landing for Canada’s CEOs
News Release
January 4, 2010
TORONTO—Canadians may
have been hit hard by a worldwide economic recession, but it appears Canada’s
100 highest paid CEOs are enjoying a soft landing. A report on executive compensation
by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), a progressive think tank,
reveals Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs pocketed an average $7.3 million
in 2008, the year recession broadsided the nation.
A
Soft Landing:
Recession and Canada’s 100 Highest Paid CEOs
(PDF - 432K, 17 pages)
By Hugh Mackenzie
January 4, 2010
"...the total
average compensation for Canada's 100 highest paid CEOs was $7,352,895 in 2008—a
stark contrast from the total average Canadian income of $42,305. They pocketed
what takes Canadians earning an average income an entire year to make by 1:01
pm January 4—the first working day of the year."
Source:
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
-
Go to the Banks and Business Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bookmrk3.htm
- Go to the Social Research Organizations (I) in Canada
page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/research.htm
| 9. Child welfare
for natives - January 3 |
Child
welfare for natives
January 3, 2010
By Reuel S. Amdur
How can we solve the problem of large numbers of native children in state care?
Let non-natives adopt them, is one view. While non-native adoptions should
not be totally barred, there are other approaches to provide stable native homes.
(...) Four per cent of Canadian adults are aboriginal, but 24 per cent of those
in provincial or territorial custody are native, as are 18 per cent of federal
prisoners. Pay now or pay later. We need our native fellow citizens.
[Reuel
S. Amdur is a freelance writer living near Ottawa.]
Source:
The
Canadian Charger
Related link:
First
Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
The purpose of the
Caring Society is to promote the well being of all First Nations children, youth,
families and communities with a particular focus on the prevention of, and response
to, child maltreatment.
- Go to the First Nations Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/1stbkmrk.htm
| 10. World Legal
Systems |
World
Legal Systems
http://www.juriglobe.ca/
Visitors pick your language! This University of
Ottawa website can be read in six different languages, including Arabic, Russian,
Chinese and English. The "About JuriGlobe" link, on the left hand side menu of
any page, explains the three main goals of the site. Visitors will learn that
the law professors who formed this site feel there should be more recognition
and consideration of "the diversity of the various legal systems, their languages
and their economic and demographic importance in the world." Once visitors choose
their language, they will be redirected to a map that shows the different types
of law that govern the countries of the world. Across the top of the map are links
to explanations of the different types of law, as well as which countries have
a combination of laws or a unified system of laws. The types of law represented
on the map are "Civil Law", "Common Law", "Muslim Law", "Customary Law", and "Mixed
Systems". The "Demographic Distribution" link on the left hand side menu illustrates
with graphs and tables the percentage in which the world population is represented
by the various legal systems.
Review by:
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet
Scout Project 1994-2010.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
- Go to the Legislation and Law Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bookmrk.htm#Legislation
| 11. REMINDER : Calls for proposals/papers for upcoming guaranteed annual income conferences (Montreal, Sao Paulo) |
REMINDER
Calls for proposals/papers:
Basic Income
Guarantee (BIG) Conference, Montreal (April 15 & 16, 2010)
Submission
deadline:
15 January 2010
13th
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil (June 30 - July
2, 2010)
Submission deadline:
25 February 2010
___________________________________________________
For
more detailed information on both of these events,
go to the Guaranteed
Annual Income Links page of this site:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/gai.htm
___________________________________________________
Related links:
* Basic
Income Earth Network Canada
* United States
Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) Network
* Basic
Income Earth Network (BIEN) - Europe
| 12. Livable Income (guaranteed income) For Everyone (LIFE) |
Livable
Income For Everyone
Livable Income For Everyone (LIFE) is an organization
started in British Columbia in 2003 to promote the implementation of universal
guaranteed livable income in every country in the world.
- incl. links to:
What - Why - How - News - Articles - Gallery - Tools - Letters - Links
Selected site content:
* What is a Guaranteed Livable Income?
* News - links
to 90 articles, studies and reports
* Links
- over 150 links to relevant sites
On Basic Income: Interview
with Götz Werner
German Millionaire is super advocate for
basic income
Posted in die tageszeitung / translated 12/09
Götz
Werner, founder of major drugstore chain (1700 stores), is one of the most influential
advocates of basic income in Germany. Werner is not only a super advocate for
guaranteed income, he is also one of the top 500 richest people in Germany.
Why the United States should
implement Basic Income
By Sam Alexander
October 2009
Welfare,
food stamps, and homeless shelters (...) explicitly stratify society into classes,
enforcing the obsolete notion that the man who doesn't do labor is a less valuable
member of society. This is why Basic Income should be absolutely universal- even
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates must be given automatic "welfare", for only then
can the dole rise above its condescending, humiliating nature.
Economic Foundations
and Environmental Progress
By Alexander Bishop
November 2009
(...) The more efficient and technologically
advanced the culture, the fewer people they need working. The
economy rewards technological stagnation in labour-saving devices and designed
obsolescence. The economy suffers when we are healthier, greener, and consume less.
The solution is a movement away from job dependant monetary
circulation to a guaranteed livable income. This will allow
positive change to occur without causing job losses leaving people unable to meet
their basic needs.
[ other articles on the LIFE site - 60+ links ]
- Go to the Guaranteed
Annual Income Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/gai.htm
- Go to the Non-Governmental Sites in British Columbia (D-W) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/bcbkmrk3.htm
| 13. What's New in The
Daily [Statistics Canada]: |
Selected
content from
The
Daily [Statistics Canada]:
January
8, 2010
Labour
Force Survey, December 2009
Following a large increase in November,
employment was unchanged in December and the unemployment rate remained at 8.5%.
In the last nine months, employment has stabilized but remains 323,000 (-.9%)
below the October 2008 peak.
- scroll to the bottom of the page for the following
tables:
* Labour force characteristics by age and sex
* Employment by
class of worker and industry (based on NAICS)
* Labour force characteristics
by province
Related link:
Labour
Force Information, December 6 to 12, 2009
1. Highlights
2.
Analysis — December 2009
3. Tables
4. Charts
5. Data quality,
concepts and methodology
6. User information
7. Related products
8.
PDF version
(438K, 58 pages)
[ earlier
issues of Labour Force Information ]
[ See also : Tables
by subject: Labour ]
Related subjects
* Labour
* Employment
and unemployment
---
January
5, 2010
Employment,
Earnings and Hours October 2009
1. Highlights
2. Note to users
3. Tables
4. Data quality, concepts and methodology
5. User information
6. Related products
7. PDF version
(2.4MB, 386 pages)
[ earlier
issues of Employment, Earnings and Hours ]
Related
subjects:
o Hours
of work and work arrangements
o Industries
o Wages,
salaries and other earnings
o Non-wage
benefits
---------------------------------
The Daily Archives
- select a month and click on a date for that day's Daily
Source:
The Daily
[Statistics
Canada]
- Go to the Federal Government
Department Links (Fisheries and Oceans to Veterans Affairs) page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/fedbkmrk2.htm
- Go to the Employment Insurance Links page : http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ei.htm
- Go to the Social Statistics Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/stats.htm
| 14. What's
new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (Toronto) - January 9 |
What's new from the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU)
January 9, 2010
The provision
of childcare services: A comparative review of 30 European countries
6 Jan 10
- Report from the European Commission comparing the childcare services
of its 27 EU Member States and three EEA countries.
Preventing
obesity in the child care setting
6 Jan 10
- Report from
Duke University School of Medicine examining US state regulations for preventing
obesity in child care settings.
Writing
an inclusion policy: A guide for child care centres and homes
6 Jan 10
- Guide from the Government of Manitoba created to assist child
care centres and family child care homes in the development of inclusion policies.
Effective
early childhood programmes
6 Jan 10
- Periodical from the
Bernard van Leer Foundation looking at policy issues for effective early childhood
education and care programmes.
more WHAT'S
NEW ONLINE »
child care in the news
·
Full-day
kindergarten plan draws fire
[CA-ON] 8
Jan 10
· Home
childcare trend fuels segregation fears
[SE] 5 Jan 10
·
Should
the government help provide child care?
[US] 5 Jan 10
·
Government
invests 12.5M pounds in childcare for disabled
[UK] 4 Jan 10
· 5,000
child-care subsidies at risk, city report warns
[CA-ON] 1 Jan
10
· Daycare
opens doors of opportunity
[CA-NB] 29 Dec 09
·
Parents
count cost of reform in child care
[AU] 5 Dec 09
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The Childcare Resource and Research
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education and child care (ECEC) and family policy in Canada and internationally.
- Go to the Non-Governmental Early Learning and Child Care Links page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/ecd2.htm
| 15. Poverty
Dispatch: U.S. media coverage of social issues and programs (Institute for Research on Poverty - University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Poverty Dispatch (U.S.)
- the content of this link changes several times a week
- scan of U.S.
web-based news items dealing with topics such as poverty, welfare reform, child
welfare, education, health, hunger, Medicare and Medicaid, etc.
Latest issues of Poverty Dispatch:
January 8:
Food
Stamp Program Enrollment
Job Losses and Unemployment in the US and Europe
Welfare Enrollment - New York City
Recession and Crime Rates
January 7:
Child Care Subsidies - Buffalo, NY
Metropolitan and Regional Unemployment
Rates
Legal Aid and Civil Cases - New York
Minority and Low-income Students
in the South
State Health Insurance Programs - Iowa, Virginia
Low-income
Workers and Wage Violations
January 6:
Funding for State Health Programs - Wisconsin, Oregon
Home Energy Assistance
- Illinois, New Jersey
January 5:
Pre-Kindergarten and School Readiness - Oregon, Louisiana
Home Foreclosures
and Renters - Maryland
Eviction and Poverty
Payday Lending Legislation
- Washington
Poverty as a Health Risk
Temporary Housing after Hurricane
Katrina
January 4:
Food Stamp Enrollment and Income
Eligibility and Enrollment in Wisconsin Works
Program
Alternatives to Payday Loans
State Minimum Wage Decrease - Colorado
Poverty Measurement - China
School Districts and Poor Children
COBRA Subsidy
Extension
Past
Poverty Dispatches
- links to dispatches back to June 2006
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Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
[ University of Wisconsin-Madison ]
-
Go to the Links to American Government Social Research page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us.htm
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (A-J) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us2.htm
- Go to the Links to American Non-Governmental Social Research (M-Z) page:
http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/us3.htm
- Go to the Poverty Measures - International Resources page: http://www.canadiansocialresearch.net/poverty2.htm
| 16. Australian
Policy Online - recent content |
Australian
Policy Online (APO)
APO is a news service and library specialising
in Australian public policy reports and articles from academic research centres,
think tanks, government and non-government organisations. The site features opinion
and commentary pieces, video, audio and web resources focussed on the policy issues
facing Australia. [ About APO ]
NOTE : includes
links to the latest APO research; the five most popular downloads of the week
appear in a dark box in the top right-hand corner of each page, and the downloads
vary depending on the topic you select.
-------------------------------------------------------
New Research : Social Policy |
Poverty
- topics include:
* Community * Cultural diversity *
Families & households * Gender & sexuality * Immigration & refugees
* Population * Poverty * Religion & faith * Social problems * Welfare * Youth
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1.
Stephan Schwarzman: $702,440,573
2. Larry Ellison: $556,976,600
3. Oprah Winfrey: $275,000,000
4. Ray Irani: $222,639,705
5.
Tiger Woods: $110,000,000
6. Madonna: $100,000,000
7. Tyler
Perry: $75,000,000
8. Harrison Ford: $65,000,000
9. Adam Sandler:
$55,000,000
10. Kobe Bryant: $45,000,000
11. Nicolas Cage: $40,000,000
12. Dale Earnhardt Jr: $35,000,000
Source:
http://www.businesspundit.com/12-highest-paid-people-of-2009/
Click the link for profiles of each of these
individuals to see where YOU
went wrong with your life.
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And, in closing...
----------------------------Top 25 Pop Songs
of 2009 Mashup (video)
http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/12/28
(I think I may have been a disco bunny in a previous life.)