Kendall Worth: About the Benefits Reform Action Group, a personal reflection
Kendall Worth on the important work that the Benefit Reform Action Group does for people on income assistance in Nova Scotia. Organize, don’t agonize!
Kendall Worth: More ignorant ideas about welfare that people actually believe
Kendall Worth continues to investigate stupid ideas about welfare that people actually believe.
Kendall Worth: Ignorant ideas about welfare I hear a lot
Kendall Worth tackles the stigma of disability and poverty, especially when dealing with landlords who don’t understand the first thing about the realities of income assistance.
Being on income assistance is work experience
Kendall Worth on the hard work that being on social assistance entails, and how you gain an assortment of valuable experiences that you should be able to list on your resume. We’re talking about skills like economical shopping, policy research and building community. And you have to be a real mathematical genius to make ends meet.
My dream job
Kendall Worth returns to the topic of paid poverty advocacy work, and how to make it a win win for everybody. It can be done. Business plan attached!
Teaching about poverty in schools and universities
Poverty activist Kendall Worth directs his attention at our educational system. Why we should teach about local poverty at all levels of education, and what that might look like. Kendall has a couple of great ideas!
All that’s wrong with the much-feared Annual Review, and how to begin to fix it
Poverty advocate and social assistance recipient Kendall Worth just went through his Annual Review. Here Kendall suggests some of the changes that would make it a much better process, based on trust rather than suspicion, clients’ needs rather than saving money.
Why I support a guaranteed basic income
Kendall Worth, who struggles to make ends meet on social assistance, comes out in favour of an annual guaranteed basic income. Not surprising, if you see your benefits shrink, your special needs ignored and you have to face a patronizing bureaucracy on a daily basis.
Hey Ho, Mental Health Stigma Has Got To Go!
Poverty activist Kendall Worth suggests people need to become more vocal if they want to see changes to Nova Scotia’s mental health system.
Op-ed: A very bad mix: mental health, stigma and poverty
Poverty activist Kendall Worth on the urgent need to talk about the link between mental health and poverty.