Thinking About Poverty Part 4: Helping the Poor; What Are the Options?
The findings in Thinking About Poverty: Helping the Poor; What are the options? demonstrate that employment-based policies provide a more lasting solution to poverty than redistributionist government programs such as welfare and housing subsidies.
Full-time employment invariably provides better overall incomes than governmental income-support programs.
In fact, well-intended policies meant to relieve people of the burden of poverty tend to limit personal growth by keeping them systematically dependent on government support programs, hindering gainful employment opportunities and the subsequent psychological benefits of being self-sufficient.
The essay defines poverty as a condition where a household does not have the means to acquire all of the basic needs it requires for long-term physical well-being, which afflicts about five per cent of the Canadian population.
Only about three per cent of Canadians are imp
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