Tag minimum wage

Poverty News Roundup – Changes for 2018

The first day of 2018 brought the start of a new year – and with it, the implementation of a number of new laws and policies across provinces in Canada that will impact workers, families, businesses, and people living in…

Make the minimum wage a living wage

A drop hitting water.

CWP had the opportunity to present to the Ontario government’s minimum wage panel on November 7th.  Using a human rights framework as a guide, we recommended that the minimum wage be set at a living wage.  See our full presentation…

Child poverty worse now than it was 20 years ago

Twenty-three years ago the federal government made a commitment to end child poverty by the year 2000.  Now, decades later, the government is reminded of its failure to follow through on this unanimous motion through annual child poverty reports released…