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From data to action: Policy implications of Welfare in Canada, 2024

September 9, 2025

This policy brief shows how social assistance and associated benefits keep people in deep poverty, and offers recommendations to raise incomes, fix shelter benefits, and redesign the Canada Disability Benefit.

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What is the Canada Workers Benefit, and how could it be better?

Mohy-Dean Tabbara

October 20, 2021

Policy in focus

Free money. For low-income kids. And the government can’t give it away.

Maytree

December 15, 2010

Policy in focus

Cities need more power to meet the needs of Canada’s urban population

Maytree

September 13, 2010

Policy in focus

Protect caregivers from financial ruin as population ages

Maytree

March 18, 2010

Policy in focus

Protecting workers in a recession is important for a stronger economy

Maytree

March 16, 2009

Policy in focus

Fix Employment Insurance to support the temporarily unemployed

Maytree

December 10, 2007