
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
It's a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up. Now he lives hand-to-mouth. His pockets are empty long before his next social assistance cheque arrives.
In early 2010 over two hundred civic and faith leaders fanned out into thirty Ontario communities. Their goal? To explore how the least fortunate people in one of the world's richest places are faring.
The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition's latest social audit exposed a tattered social assistance system run by volunteers desperately struggling to fill the gaps. There can be no papering over the savage inequalities and suffering exposed in this compelling look at life from the margins.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Work of Hundreds of People
- 1. “As Sharp As You Could Cut Them”
- 2. Back to the Future? The Choice Is Ours
- 3. Working Harder Is Hardly Working
- 4. Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty
- 5. Ontario Works: How Did This Happen to Me?
- 6. The Disorienting Disability Support Maze
- 7. The Affordable Housing Deficit: Out of the Cold
- 8. Housing Strategy on the Brink: The Time Has Come
- 9. The Cost of Hunger: Food Security and Health Issues
- 10. Food Insecurity: A Source of Suffering and Ill Health
- 11. Poverty and Health: “I’m One Stumble from the Street”
- 12. Poverty Makes Us Sick
- 13. Families Matter: The Catch-22 of Poverty
- 14. Ontario’s Push to Early Childhood Education and Care for All
- 15. “It’s Not My Country Yet . . .”
- 16. Rural Poverty: Hidden in the Country?
- 17. Theological Reflections on Poverty
- 18. A Pebble in the Shoe
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Contributors