Blueprint for Poverty Reduction Videos
Posted 15 December 2008
On November 27, Marvyn Novick, social policy expert and consultant with the Social Planning Network of Ontario and CAMPAIGN 2000, presented for community discussion what a blueprint for a multi-year poverty reduction strategy and plan in Ontario would look like. The Blueprint showed why there is no choice but to act on poverty reduction, identifying the key expectations of the Government's plan, and outline specific action on poverty reduction in three priority areas. See video footage of the event...
Blueprint for Poverty Reduction draft (PDF)
- Campaign context
- Introduction
- To often poverty is viewed … as the personal failure of people living in poverty.
- Poverty code words
- Our collective responsibility
- Our collective failure
- Two Prefaces
-- Call for justice - Bishop Michael Bird
-- Commitment to action - The Hon. Dalton McGuinty - What would a serious plan look like?
- Economic imperative
- The new intelligence
- What is needed?
- Political imperative
- Poverty reduction entering the core
- Four parties with a poverty plan, one without
- Fiscal imperative
- Major investment prudent in hard times
- Inject money where it will be spent quickly
- The Blueprint (in brief)
- Key expectations
-- 25 in 5 targets
-- Benchmark indicator
-- 50 in 10 Targets
-- Outline Goals
-- Poverty reduction in legislation
-- Serious investment
- Strategic priorities
- Priorities for system restructuring
-- Labour market
-- Social assistance
-- Addressing historical disadvantage
-- Public education and poverty reduction
- Priority Areas for Public Investment
-- Income support
-- Social housing
-- Community initiatives
-- A robust system of early childhood education and care
- Four Priority Areas for Direct Federal Income Support
-- Erosion of employment insurance
-- Raising the maximum child benefit
-- Enhanced working income tax benefit
-- New basic income system for person with disabilities
- Action agenda
- Critical timeframe for poverty reduction
Greg deGroot-Maggetti - 5 Tests
- 25 in 5 targets
- Solid measuring stick
- Policy specifics
- Legislation and accountability
- A down payment