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Roads Out of Poverty Chemins pour sortir de la pauvreté

Roads Out of Poverty Chemins pour sortir de la pauvreté . Dr. Cathy Rogers. Common Front for Social Justice Former bureaucrat Sociologist Welcome. Facts I believe to be true.

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Roads Out of Poverty Chemins pour sortir de la pauvreté

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  1. Roads Out of PovertyChemins pour sortir de la pauvreté

  2. Dr. Cathy Rogers Common Front for Social Justice Former bureaucrat Sociologist Welcome

  3. Facts I believe to be true 1. We need pathways that reduce poverty, but more than that, we need Roads that Eliminate & Prevent Poverty 2. In the end, roads that are wide & solid enough to include everyone, will reduce costs to New Brunswickers

  4. Giving the “Facts of Poverty” Meaning Correlated with other issues  individual & systemic Personal, social, & economic Interacts & intersects with, & aggravates other issues Barrier to growth Infers particular responses

  5. What are these appropriate responses? • Engagement & collaboration of all stakeholders • Commitment to long-term vision • Setting aside of competing interests • Intentionally including of all voices & perspectives

  6. Roads Out of PovertyChemins pour sortir de la pauvreté Nature & Urgency of Poverty Facts of New Brunswick Poverty

  7. Nature & Urgency of Poverty • Complex • Personal in experience, but not only personally-rooted • Structurally & systemically rooted & experienced • The facts have meaning • Facts/statements never just or merely that • Feedback loop  poverty & other problems become cause & consequence of one another • Urgent!!! • Due to nature, complexity, & responses • Ideas informed by research AND experiences, prejudices interests, contexts • Poverty greatest social ill

  8. Meaning in some of NB’s “Facts of Poverty” • Minimum wages low & not indexed to real CoL • #s of unemployed rose by 11,000 from 2007-2012 • Nearly 40,000 depending on IA • In March 2012 alone, 20,000 relied on food banks • 23% children 0-12 access to child care • Still, pay gap remains between women/men

  9. Meaning in some of NB’s “Facts of Poverty” • About 20% have no drug plan • Growing # of seniors’ pensions at risk; 1 in 7 persons is over 65 & in own homes; there is no public program for this • The right to appeal disability is restricted • There is disproportionate income tax paid by corporations & individuals

  10. So, what are the Roads Out of Poverty?Quesont les Chemins pour sortir de la pauvreté • Conceptually ? • Practically ?

  11. Conceptually … • Challenge assumptions about poverty • Consider the meaning behind “the facts” of poverty in New Brunswick • What does it say about who we are or on what road we are walking? • Let the meaning must move us to building the road with a strong foundation (front end) & wide birth (inclusive) • See the problem as urgent

  12. Practically … • Increase minimum wages by 25 cents/hr/ year … 4 years to reach $11/hr in 2017 (=$520/yr +) • Cancel EI changes • Report publicly food bank & soup kitchen data (& bring back other data sources cut) • Develop public child care system • Legislate full pay equity • Adopt shared drug plan (40% paid by uninsured, 30% by employers not providing insurance, 30% by gov’t)

  13. Practically … • Roll back to 65 OAS benefits; gradually implement 2-fold increase in CPP/QPP benefits; increase OAS/GIS benefits; implement strict legislation regarding pension funds; & develop quality long-term care policies for seniors to stay in homes longer • Develop open, informed, impartial, independent, tripartite review process for workplace injury/disability claim & create fund for support & protection organization • Revert tax rates to 2008 & add a 5th rate of taxation of 21% for earners over $150,000

  14. And … • Strongly support families & children, particularly those at-risk, and lone individuals also at risk • Take seriously how poverty intersects and interacts with education, and how barriers to education aggravate other problems • Develop partnerships, encourage social networks, & foster collaboration

  15. Roads Out of PovertyCONCLUSIONSChemins pour sortir de la pauvreté • Everyone suffers in an unequal society • Poverty costs • We need New Brunswick solutions, incorporating our contexts, values, and priorities

  16. Facts I believe to be true 1. We need pathways that reduce poverty, but more than that, we need Roads that Eliminate & Prevent Poverty 2. In the end, roads that are wide & solid enough to include everyone, will reduce costs to New Brunswickers

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