Kendall Worth: My meeting with Dartmouth North MLA Susan Leblanc
Kendall sits down for coffee with Susan Leblanc, MLA for Dartmouth North. They discuss poverty, isolation, the EI clawbacks, and the benefits of a 24/7 drop-in centre.
Poverty
Community Services transformation: No lack of spin during info sessions
Recently Community Services organized a series of info sessions to provide an update to stakeholders on the ESIA transformation. I couldn’t go of course, since I am merely a grouchy old journalist and not a stakeholder. But I talked to a few anti-poverty advocates, and this is what I found out.
Kendall Worth: Let’s find a solution for people living in poverty when they need day surgery
Kendall Worth shows once again how what most people would consider simple problems are often almost insurmountable obstacles for people on income assistance. Poverty, stigma and isolation make many things much more complicated.
News release: My Week on Welfare comes to Lower Sackville on November 22
“My Week on Welfare” is a documentary about the state of the welfare system in Nova Scotia. Next week it’s coming to Lower Sackville. It’s a great documentary, and the discussion after the showing is always very powerful. You’re not alone, and you don’t have to take it!
Kendall Worth: My experience attending a recent Community Services information session on income assistance
Our correspondent Kendall Worth attended one of the welfare transformation meetings organized by Community Services, and he came back disappointed.
Letter: Income Assistance – The smoking $28
Erica Lewis documents the minuscule increases in shelter and living allowance that she received since she first went on income assistance in 1990, and writes about a sleigh of hand by Community Services that made $28 disappear.
Kendall Worth: How a bus pass improves life for people living in the middle of nowhere
Kendall Worth catches up with a young woman who lives in Beaver Bank and finds out how the bus pass has improved her life.
Announcing the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers Poverty Pitch
This is big! Together with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers we are commissioning one in-depth story on a poverty-related topic. We want to hear from both professional writers and from people who write from lived experience. Thanks to the generous support of the NSCSW we are able to pay between $500 and $750, depending on the complexity of the topic and how experienced a writer you are. Send us your pitch!
Letter: No to public money for CFL stadium
When it comes to spending public money frequent contributor Paul Vienneau can think of many things more useful than a CFL stadium.
Kendall Worth: 100 percent EI clawbacks are 100 percent wrong
Kendall Worth writes about questions Dartmouth North MLA Susan Leblanc raised about EI clawbacks for people on Income Assistance. It’s a topic dear to Kendall’s heart as he knows several people who experienced this.