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Ken Battle
Ken Battle is one of Canada’s leading social policy thinkers. He co-founded the Caledon Institute of Social Policy in 1992 with Alan Broadbent and served as its president until 2017.
Publications
- Social policy-making still stealthy after all these years
- Welfare in Canada, 2016
- Caledon praises Federal Economic Statement
- The 2017 Farewell Budget
- Welfare in Canada 2015
- Dear Minister: Help low-income families by acting now, not in 2020
- Minimum Wage, Maximum Wager in Alberta
- Canada Pension Plan: The New Deal
- The Canada Child Benefit Needs to be Fully Indexed to Inflation
- The Social-Policy-Is-Back Budget
- Ottawa Must Get Serious about Poverty Reduction
- Welfare in Canada, 2014
- Minimum Wage Rates in Canada: 1965-2015
- Guaranteed Income or Guaranteed Incomes?
- Child Benefits in Canada: Politics Versus Policy
- Child benefit reform is back on track
- Child Benefits and the 2015 Federal Budget
- The 2015 Deficit-of-Ideas Budget
- Welfare in Canada 2013
- The Six Billion Dollar Man
- If you don’t pay, you can’t play: the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit
- The Elephant Not in the Room
- The 2014 Unbalanced Budget
- Welfare in Canada 2012
- Laurie Needs Affordable Housing
- Poverty and Prosperity in Nunavut
- Strengthening the Canada Pension Plan: Take it to the public
- Welfare Re-form: The Future of Social Policy
- The Case for a Canada Social Report
- The Skilled Budget
- Proceedings of Caledon’s 20th Anniversary
- Guiding principles for social policy budgets
- As the fiscal chill thaws: social policy ideas for the medium term
- A proposal to strengthen the Canada Pension Plan: the 1.5 option
- Enhancing the Working Income Tax Benefit
- Saving Welfare Incomes and Poverty Profile
- The No-Budge Budget
- Old Age Insecurity?
- Tackling Inequality Now
- Payroll Tax Increases: Less – and More – Than Meet the Eye
- Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance
- Fixing the Hole in Employment Insurance: Temporary Income Assistance for the Unemployed
- Inequality Is Not Inevitable
- Inequality Is Not Inevitable
- Trends in Canada’s Payroll Taxes
- Bleeding Hearts and Heads
- Acrimony on Acronyms
- When is $500 not $500?
- When is $500 not $500?
- Prisons or poverty? The choice is clear
- A simple way to help Canada’s poorest seniors
- Restoring Minimum Wages in Canada
- Policy Agenda in Search of a Budget
- A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities
- EI Financing: Reset Required
- Reconstructing Social Assistance in New Brunswick: Vision and Action
- Information Blackout
- Breaking down the welfare wall in New Brunswick
- The Déjà Vu All Over Again Budget
- How did the just society become just don’t care?
- All Aboard Manitoba’s Poverty Train
- Canada’s Shrunken Safety Net: Employment Insurance in the Great Recession
- Gender aspects of Employment Insurance
- The federal role in poverty reduction
- The Red-Ink Budget
- Beneath the Budget of 2009: taxes and benefits
- The Forgotten Fundamentals
- Make Work Pay
- A $5,000 Canada Child Tax Benefit: Questions and Answers
- A Bigger and Better Child Benefit: A $5,000 Canada Child Tax Benefit
- Caledon Response to Liberal Poverty Strategy
- A Throne Speech for All Parties
- Mixed Brew for the ‘Coffee Shop’ Budget
- Tax Fairness According to Canada’s New Government
- Towards a New Architecture for Canada’s Adult Benefits
- More Than a Name Change: The Universal Child Care Benefit
- The Incredible Shrinking $1,200 Child Care Allowance: How to Fix It
- Finding Common Ground on Child Care
- The Choice in Child Care Allowance: What you See Is Not What You Get
- A Working Income Tax Benefit That Works
- The Vote or Veto Budget: An analysis of the 2005 federal Budget
- Presentation to the Finance Committee Pre-Budget Consultation
- Child Tax Deception: the Proposed Child Tax Deduction
- Why Canada Needs a Federal-Provincial Social Security Review Now
- Sustaining Public Pensions in Canada: A Tale of Two Reforms
- The 2003 Budget: Political Legacy Needs Policy Architecture
- Ontario’s Shrinking Minimum Wage
- Architecture for National Child Care
- Foundations and Future of Social Policy in Canada: Three Short Speeches from the Caledon Institute’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, November 6, 2002
- Social Policy That Works: An Agenda
- Relentless Incrementalism: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Canadian Income Security Policy
- Ottawa Should Expand the Canada Child Tax Benefit
- Lessons for the Russian Federation from the Reform of Income Security Programs in Canada
- The Post-Welfare State in Canada: Income-Testing and Inclusion
- Ken Battle and Eric Leviten gave the opening address at the ‘Building a Winning Community’ conference in Hamilton, Ontario on
- Yes, Virginia, There is a Guaranteed Annual Income
- Social Programs: Reconstruction Not Restoration
- A Proposed Model Framework for Early Childhood Development Services Within the National Children’s Agenda
- The Payback Budget of 2000
- Ottawa Should Help Build a National Early Childhood Development System
- Credit Corrosion: Bracket Creep’s Evil Twin
- How to Do a Children’s Budget and a Tax Cut Budget in 2000
- More Money in the Pocket
- Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market
- Poverty Eases Slightly
- Beware of Governments Bearing Tax Gifts
- Good Work: Getting It and Keeping It
- The Social Fundamentals
- No Taxation Without Indexation
- Persistent Poverty
- Child Benefit Reform in Canada: An Evaluative Framework and Future Directions
- Targeted Tax Relief
- The National Child Benefit: Best Thing Since Medicare or New Poor Law?
- Social Reinvestment: Memo to the Next Prime Minister of Canada
- The Down Payment Budget
- National Child Benefit: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
- The 1996 Budget and Social Policy
- Lest We Forget: Why Canada Needs Strong Social Programs
- Can We Have National Standards
- How Finance Re-Formed Social Policy
- The Dangers of Block Funding
- Saving the Review
- Old Wine in New Bottles: Privatizing Old Age Pensions
- Green Light, Red Flag: Caledon Statement on the Social Security Review
- Axworthy’s Armada: Becalmed or Lost at Sea
- Seniors Beware: This Review’s For You Too
- Thinking the Unthinkable: A Targeted, Not Universal, Old Age Pension
- The Welfare Wall: The Interaction of the Welfare and Tax Systems
- The Welfare Wall: Reforming the Welfare and Tax Systems
- Breaking Down the Welfare Wall
- The Squeeze on Social Spending
- Missing a Chance for a Solid Punch at Poverty
- Federal Social Programs: Setting the Record Straight