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| eT IN en Outin right, ¢%» field : with bruce arnold The Davis Government has come up with the most progressive and commendable idea of its life. The Government, or more notably Commun- ity and Social Services Minister Rene Brunelle, has. decided to give welfare victims the opportunity of going to work for a living. In the past there have been only two categories of poor people. The ones who let pride interfere with the financial needs of their families, and who worked for low wages bringing home less than they would have gotten from welfare, and the others who refused to work so their families would be better off thereby sacrificing self esteem. Only one third of Canada's poor have been on welfare. Two out of three worked at a loss. Hence the saying, "'poor but proud." The problem was that the government only helped a person if he did not work at &ll. The minute a man on welfare took a job he was cut off. What would you do if you had three children and were getting $200 a month, plus medical care, dental care, and a week at a charity fresh air camp every year free and someone offered you a job at the minimum wage? Working for, let's say, two dollars an hour you would gross $320. a month. After income tax, " Unemployment Insurance and Canada Pension deductions you would have about $250. You would pay transportation to and from work, the full cost of dental care for your children, etc., leaving you with less free money than you could get on welfare. That is: the position most welfare victims have been in. They could not take a job without making their families suffer. Not any more. The provincial government has decided to take a page out of Alberta"s welfare book, and subsidize the wages of low earners who wish to go to work. If the man getting $200. a month welfare now wants the job at two dollars an hour he may still get free medicare and or dental care. In some cases he may even get a little money from the welfare each month. But the amount he gets will cost the taxpayer less than if he just stayed home. And instead of learning to lie rather than admit, "well, | guess we are on welfare at the moment,'"' the family head can have the dignity of bragging,' | work on the line." _ on Informed people no longer wonder what 'causes the, "welfare cycle," that phenominum which sees the children and grandchildren of welfare victims also living off welfare, genera- tion after generation. We learned some time ago that the problem was caused by a lack of dignity. A few years of welfare takes the last ounce of pride out of a man.. Now, by letting him work, we not only reduce the amount we have to give him each manth, but we give his son the lesson that work is rewarding. We may have fewer victims in the future. Ontario's welfare system still has a long way to go before it fully reaches a humane and sensible level, but at least it looks as if it is headed in the right direction. 2 'the OAPOow vy ANNUAL we Windg, > SPECIAL VO RicHARD'S BEAUTY STUDIO O° FEBRUARY 1st to 28th ~-- PERMS: . Reg. $12. for $11.00 Reg. $13.50 for $12.00 Reg. $15. for $13.50 Reg. $17.50 for $15.00 Reg. $25.00 for $20.00 FEB. 5th to 28th ~~ STREAKS & BLEACMES: SPECIAL $16.00 FEB. 12th fo 28th -- CONDITIONING TREATMENTS: ' SPECIAL $5.50 FEBRUARY 19th to 28th = TINTS: SPECIAL $7.50 Phone 985-7991 a TE NNN F300 PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, Feb. 6th, 1974-3 Anti- poverty groups to meet The Ontario Anti-Poverty Coalition is completing final details for its province-wide Anti-Poverty Conference scheduled for Toronto's Lord Simcoe Hotel on Feb. 15-16-17 which is expected to attract 650 delegates. The coalition is made up of income groups) 'the Ontario Federa- tion of Labor, Ontario Team- sters provincial council, the United, Anglican, Roman Catholic and Unitarian churches, the Ontario Association of Professional Social Workers, as well as other groups. The Confer- ence will be co-chaired by Ed Waddell of the OFL and Norman Brudy representing the OAPO. "Full Employment in Ontario" is the conference theme. Since its beginning, the OAPO has urged that its main aim is to eliminate poverty in Canada's wealth- iest province. Using National Health and Welfare statistics on poverty, the OAPO points out that 60 percent of those below the poverty line are working for a living. Of the balance, 41 percent are per- manently disabled; 26 per- cent single parents suppor- ting children; 9 percent aged; 8 percent temnorarily Nice 'N Eas tion , lected collect! > patterns designe 8 most disoniins) i Ready-paste ' \ and washable Easy app maintenance. y is a carefully of wall d to suit the ting taste. vinyl-coateé for that Nice 'N ® lication and AV J See it s0ON- disabled. Only 13 percent are employable. In reply to those in government and industry who claim welfare recepients are "lazy good-for-nothing loafers," OAPO points out that only 1.43 percent voluntarily quit their jobs. In a brief presented to the Ontario government last summer, the OAPO ex- pressed its dissatisfaction with government "band-aid" methods which do nothing to get at the roots of poverty in the province. At that time they put forward a series of demands which included: "The creation of thousands of new jobs at adequate wages through the develop- ment of high job content secondary industry, so that our abundance of natural energy resources can be used for the benefit of Ontario and her people. "A crash program to build one million low rental housing units over the next five years. Strict rent con- trols to be established and an end put to land speculation." In spite of the fact that government ~~ spokesman agreed these proposals were well thought out and pre- sented, they have taken no action. Eight workshops at the conference will discuss four major positions papers deal- ing with 1. Full Employ- ment, 2. Inflation and the high cost of living, 3. Housing 4. A critique of present government "social legisla- . tion. 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