Tag Archives: poverty
Minimum Wages as Macroeconomic Stimulus?
The minimum wage debate has heated up in Ontario given the Ontario Ministry of Labor’s Minimum Wage Advisory Panel is travelling the province looking for input on how to adjust the minimum wage in the province and sparking debate as to whether the minimum wage should be raised from the current general minimum of $10.25 […]
Five years of the Working Income Tax Benefit
Quietly, without (much) fanfare, Stephen Harper's Conservative government has been gradually promoting a new model for income support programs: the Working Income Tax Benefit, or WITB. On the face of it, WITB looks very similar to the Liberal government's signature program, Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB). Both WITB and CCTB provide cash support to low […]
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