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Alleviating child poverty would save much more money than it would cost

Published on June 14, 2018 in Featured/Indy Essay by Ed Finn

Oh God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! –Thomas Hood, “The Song of the Shirt.” Canadians are fortunate to live in one of the world’s better countries, but we delude ourselves when we claim to be living in the best—or even one of the best. Not when more than a million Canadian children—15.1 percent or one in seven of them—are living in poverty, many thousands bereft of adequate nutrition and health care. Not when the OECD ranks Canada 15th—third last—among the 17 leading industrialized countries in the extent of its child poverty. (The OECD gives Canada a C grade, not much lower than the D grade given the last nation on the list, the United States.) Not when children in millions of Canadian households are living in sub-standard, crowded, poorly furnished housing conditions. Not when 21 percent of single Canadian mothers have to raise…

It’s time for a $15 minimum wage

Published on June 2, 2017 in To Each Their Own by Hans Rollmann

Ontario just introduced a $15 minimum wage. The benefits are obvious, and it’s time for this province to do the same.

Poverty rate shockingly high in the U.S., just as rampant in Canada

Published on March 22, 2017 in The Nonagenarian’s Notebook by Ed Finn

Five million people in Canada are living in poverty.

The Ball Government’s attack on N.L. society

Published on January 12, 2017 in To Each Their Own by Hans Rollmann

The Liberals’ book tax is part of a bigger, disturbing pattern.

Access to education and employment key to poverty reduction

Published on January 10, 2017 in Letters by TheIndependent.ca

“Policies aimed at improving access to education and the ability to obtain employment complement each other in breaking the cyclical nature of poverty.”

Liberals face mounting scorn as anti-austerity movement matures

Published on June 8, 2016 in Journalism by Justin Brake

As residents and groups ramp up direct action efforts while resistance to austerity grows, some observers are calling for movement to embrace mutual aid.

Escaping poverty through the library

Published on June 4, 2016 in Uncategorized by Joshua Keep

If you think they’re outdated and due for cutbacks, it’s a sign of your good fortune and privilege. Libraries remain vital for the poor.

An Open Letter to Cathy Bennett Concerning Anxiety

Published on April 25, 2016 in Letters by TheIndependent.ca

“Respectfully, Minister Bennett, the anxiety that you are currently witnessing pre-exists this budget. Your budget has inflamed it.”

The Labrador Problem

Published on April 22, 2016 in Uncategorized by Robert Way

The recent provincial budget highlights structural issues with how services in Labrador are financed. Rather than assigning blame to various governments it is necessary that the provincial and federal governments re-evaluate how services are provided to isolated ‘territories’ lacking self-governance.

Solidarity and paying my dues

Published on April 20, 2016 in Uncategorized by Michelle Keep

If you can afford to look at this budget in the abstract, you’re well off enough that you can pay a bigger share.

Residents take anti-austerity fight to streets of St. John’s

Published on April 17, 2016 in Journalism by Justin Brake

Province-wide, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are concerned and angry about the devastating consequences the Dwight Ball Government’s austerity budget will have on the most vulnerable people in the province and even the working class.

Liberals’ austerity budget will hit most vulnerable hardest

Published on April 15, 2016 in Journalism by Hans Rollmann

Despite reassurances by government that all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians will share the burden of addressing the province’s $1.83 billion deficit, critics say the Liberals’ first round of austerity is disproportionately targeting the marginalized and least privileged first.

Christmas at Choices for Youth

Published on December 19, 2015 in Letters by admin

“Thirty percent of the homeless population in St. John’s are between the ages 16-24. For them, and for many others, the holidays are not a happy time — they’re a reminder of being in a position of extreme vulnerability.”

The cost of living simply

Published on November 26, 2015 in Uncategorized by Michelle Keep

Homesteading sounds like a wonderful lifestyle, but it is also utterly unattainable for many in Newfoundland and Labrador who are working low-wage jobs and lack capital.

Report calls for action to end youth homelessness in NL

Published on June 3, 2015 in Journalism by Justin Brake

With youth homelessness rates higher than the national average and growing, advocates say Newfoundland and Labrador urgently needs a binding and actionable provincial plan to eliminate the problem.

Let’s raise taxes on the rich (Pt. 2)

Published on April 27, 2015 in A Measured Opinion by Tom Baird

Economists from Memorial University have some ideas for changing the tax system in order to fight poverty.

Talking Turkeys

Published on December 5, 2014 in Uncategorized by Maura Hanrahan

Food banks were supposed to be a temporary measure, not an institution. Could our energies be better spent tackling income inequality, rather than institutionalizing charity?

Living in the Tory bubble

Published on November 13, 2014 in Uncategorized by Bill Hynd

It’s time to put an end to conservative ideology in Canadian politics, which has been stoking the fires and serving the rich

Minimum wage town hall spawns stories of poverty

Published on September 10, 2014 in Journalism by Justin Brake

Newfoundland and Labrador may be a so-called ‘have’ province, but despite the record corporate profits from our natural resource industries, thousands of minimum wage workers are living on or below the poverty line

The myopia of charitable giving

Published on August 20, 2014 in Power and Dissent by Jon Parsons

Lewis Kearney’s story tugs on the heartstrings, but is charity the best or only response?

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