Helena Jaczek, Ontario’s Minister for Community and Social Services, is surrounded by the media at Queen’s Park, in Toronto, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young) Living in poverty is getting harder.
Paul Chislett of the Windsor Workers Education Centre has close contact with many people who live well below the poverty line.
“It’s very dire," says Chislett.He says the rates need to go up substantially, immediately.“We’ve been talking about raise the minimum wage, raise the rates for social assistance for years and years of this, now seems to be a good time to pull this off," says Chislett.That’s […]
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