ISARC makes their case for welfare reform

ISARC makes their case for welfare reform

The Bloch report, a 2017 report authored by St. Michael’s Hospital family physician and researcher Dr. Gary Bloch, included a series of measures to simplify getting welfare and remove barriers to welfare recipients working while receiving benefits. As Ontario Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod gets set to reveal her welfare reform package on Nov. 8, the people who run Ontario’s food banks, shelters and volunteer supports for poor families are urging the provincial government to restore the basic income pilot project.

They also want MacLeod to keep the welfare streamlining recommendations of a 2017 report authored […]

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