Kendall Worth: Community Services transformation is getting back up
Kendall Worth hears that the welfare transformation project at Community Services is starting up again, and people in his community have lots of questions.
Welfare transformation
Kendall Worth: Open letter to Iain Rankin, the new premier of Nova Scotia
Kendall Worth: “There need to be further increases in the income assistance allowances. Everyone, including income assistance recipients, should be able to shop in grocery stores rather than rely on the food banks.”
Kendall Worth: Income Assistance transformation delivered next to nothing of what it promised
Kendall Worth: It is safe to say that the ESIA transformation is a major broken promise by our current Liberal government because even though some change has happened, the change that happened was very little.
Florida swampland for sale at great discounts: Liberal leadership candidates talk poverty
The three Liberal leadership candidates recently talked about poverty. After 7+ years in government their promises to tackle poverty in this province are simply not credible.
Kendall Worth: Keeping our eyes peeled as politicians return to Province House
Kendall Worth tackles what he hopes to see at the upcoming session of the provincial legislature. He singles out affordable housing and rent control.
One in four kids: After 30 years there is hardly a dent in Nova Scotia child poverty
Since 1989 child poverty in Nova Scotia decreased by less than one percent. One in four kids lives in poverty, for kids younger than 2 years, that is one in three! Let that sink in. And numbers for African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw kids are much higher again.
Jodi Brown: After five years of government promises people on income assistance end up with very little
Our Nova Scotia Government has spent over $10 million on the implementation of the welfare transformation since 2014, but the results are pretty depressing for most people on assistance. “I have one word for our government and that is criminal,” writes Jodi Brown.
Community Society to End Poverty (CSEP): Letter to Finance Minister Karen Casey
A letter from the Community Society to End Poverty to Finance minister Karen Casey with recommendations for the upcoming provincial budget to raise incomes for people on income assistance and deal with the rental crisis.
Kendall Worth: Open letter to Minister Karen Casey on the need for people on income assistance to live a full life in their communities
Kendall Worth writes an open letter to Karen Casey, Nova Scotia’s minister of Finance, to make the case for a social inclusion tax credit and increased mental health spending. “The rates are not enough for income assistance recipients to get out and meet people. Their ability to be involved in their community is limited due to having so very little money to live on. Often this lack of money is causing feelings of social anxiety!”
News release: Anti-poverty group calls increases to Income Assistance a “Drop in the Bucket”
News release: Anti-poverty advocates are deeply disappointed with the Province’s announcement of so-called “increases” to Income Assistance rates.