Op-ed: Social Assistance increase is just a drop in a bucket
Op-ed: Today’s budget announcement that social assistance will increase by $20 falls so far short of what is needed that it is laughable.
Welfare
More hunger in Nova Scotia than any other province, report finds
Some facts to ponder on Budget Day: Nova Scotians experience more food insecurity than any other province. Also, more people go hungry than in any other province. We also lead the way in terms of children facing food insecurity, a new report finds.
Weekend Video: 14 REAL stories, when you’re poor in Nova Scotia, you’re on your own
This excellent 2013 documentary by Kimberly Smith portrays 14 people in Kings County, in the Annappolis Valey, who struggle to make ends meet. Government as a support is mostly absent.
Newsbrief: NDP reveals legislative wish list on poverty, healthcare and environment
If only the NDP were in power, these would be the things it would do this Spring, said Gary Burrill at a press conference at Province House this morning.
Metro Housing Authority to public housing tenants: “we will try to do better”
You’re right, we’re doing a pretty lousy job taking care of public housing tenants, the general manager of the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority told a group of unhappy Spryfield residents. A follow-up on our last story.
Mice everywhere. Spryfield public housing tenants fight government inaction
A terrible mice infestation turned tenants’ lives into a nightmare. The landlord, the Metropolitan Regional Housing Authority, isn’t really dealing with the problem.
People on welfare talk back to Community Services – First Voices become One Voice
Tim B. went to one of the Community Services First Voice consultations about welfare reform. This is his fascinating report: bad and overworked caseworkers, endless paperwork, and a heartless bureaucracy.
Joanne Bernard’s refusal to raise welfare rates hurts kids
People, kids, on welfare go hungry in Nova Scotia. Yet the provincial government refuses even to consider a tiny cost of living increase.
The minister who stole Christmas
For people on social assistance in Nova Scotia Community Services minister Joanne Bernard is the grinch who stole Christmas. That was the message of a rally at Victoria Park in downtown Halifax on Thursday.