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Michael Mendelson
Michael Mendelson has written extensively on social and fiscal policy. He is a former deputy minister in Ontario and Manitoba and is currently a fellow of Maytree.
Publications
- Critical lessons from Ontario about how to set up a Basic Income experiment
- Applying a basic income lens to British Columbia’s demand-side housing programs
- Lessons from Ontario: Michael Mendelson presenting to the Special Committee on Poverty in Prince Edward Island
- Lessons from Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot
- An anti-poverty provincial child benefit for British Columbia
- Extending the disability tax credit to low-income Canadians
- Ontario’s social assistance reforms hint at direction, offer few specifics, and have problematic implications
- Breaking the mould in welfare reform
- A simple way to improve the disability tax credit
- Caledon Institute Welcomes the New National Housing Strategy
- Caledon praises Federal Economic Statement
- What does an actual housing allowance look like? Manitoba’s Rent Assist program
- A renewed voice for social Canada
- The 2017 Farewell Budget
- ‘Basic Income’ or ‘Bait and Switch’?
- Using low income and material deprivation to monitor poverty reduction
- Canada Pension Plan: The New Deal
- The Canada Child Benefit Needs to be Fully Indexed to Inflation
- The Social-Policy-Is-Back Budget
- Designing a housing allowance program
- Ottawa Must Get Serious about Poverty Reduction
- Training Programs Need a Hard Look
- Options for a Refundable Disability Tax Credit for ‘working age’ persons
- The 2015 Deficit-of-Ideas Budget
- A Second Look at the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act
- Labour Market Development Agreements (LMDAs) and the Federal Role in Labour Programs
- The 2014 Unbalanced Budget
- Here’s a thought: The Canada Skills Grant
- Strengthening the Canada Pension Plan: Take it to the public
- Time to negotiate: Hammering out a “First Nations Education Act”
- Time for Talk, Not Action
- A Note from the Caledon Institute on Poverty Reduction in Ontario
- The Training Wheels Are Off: A Closer Look at the Canada Job Grant
- A Flimflam Budget
- 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
- It’s not in Quebec’s best interests to take back EI from Ottawa
- The No-Budge Budget
- Old Age Insecurity?
- Fixing the Hole in Employment Insurance: Temporary Income Assistance for the Unemployed
- Ontario through the Crystal Ball
- The UK in 2011 is not Canada in 1996
- Prisons or poverty? The choice is clear
- A simple way to help Canada’s poorest seniors
- Policy Agenda in Search of a Budget
- A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities
- EI Financing: Reset Required
- Stand up for good government, MPs
- 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?
- Developing a Deprivation Index: The Research Process
- Testing the Validity of the Ontario Deprivation Index
- Why We Need a First Nations Education Act
- All Aboard Manitoba’s Poverty Train
- Canada’s Shrunken Safety Net: Employment Insurance in the Great Recession
- Budgets for Bad Times
- The Red-Ink Budget
- The Forgotten Fundamentals
- Federal Election – Politicians refuse to admit that deficits are inevitable
- Improving Education on Reserves: A First Nations Education Authority Act
- Caledon Response to Liberal Poverty Strategy
- A Throne Speech for All Parties
- Asset-Based Social Programs: A Critical Analysis of Current Initiatives
- Mixed Brew for the ‘Coffee Shop’ Budget
- Improving Primary and Secondary Education on Reserves in Canada
- Cutting CPP Contributions: Let’s pop this trial balloon
- Financing the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans
- Building Assets Through Housing
- Aboriginal Peoples and Postsecondary Education in Canada
- Towards a New Architecture for Canada’s Adult Benefits
- More Than a Name Change: The Universal Child Care Benefit
- Finding Common Ground on Child Care
- The Next Recession: Anyone Got a Plan?
- A Working Income Tax Benefit That Works
- The Vote or Veto Budget: An analysis of the 2005 federal Budget
- Measuring child benefits: Measuring child poverty
- Presentation to the Finance Committee Pre-Budget Consultation
- Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market: Work and Unemployment, Today and Tomorrow
- Ottawa’s Annual Fiscal Follies
- Why Canada Needs a Federal-Provincial Social Security Review Now
- Accountability Versus Conditionality
- Child Benefits Levels in 2003 and Beyond: Australia, Canada, the UK and the US
- The 2003 Budget: Political Legacy Needs Policy Architecture
- Foundations and Future of Social Policy in Canada: Three Short Speeches from the Caledon Institute’s 10th Anniversary Celebration, November 6, 2002
- Canada 2015: Globalization and the Future of Canada’s Health and Health Care
- Social Programs: Reconstruction Not Restoration
- The Payback Budget of 2000
- The Price of Prudence
- How to Do a Children’s Budget and a Tax Cut Budget in 2000
- Aboriginal People in Canada’s Labour Market
- To Everything (Even Fiscal Policy) There Is a Time: A Time to Restrain and a Time to Spend
- The Social Fundamentals
- No Treasure CHST for Health Services
- To Pay or Not to Pay: Should the Federal Government ‘Pay Down’ its Debt?
- The Capitalist Models: Where They Came From and Where They May Go
- Child Benefit Reform in Canada: An Evaluative Framework and Future Directions
- The Down Payment Budget
- The 1996 Budget and Social Policy
- Social Policy Before the Next Referendum
- Social Policy After the Referendum
- Looking for Mr. Good Transfer: A Guide to the CHST Negotiations
- Social Policy in Real Time