13 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
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Join us for a briefing on why a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all Guaranteed Annual Income should not be seen as the ideal goal by policymakers. Long-standing social objectives, including antipoverty goals, can be met by a more multidimensional understanding of poverty and by developing a new generation of social programs.
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Advocates of the expanded CPP call the new plan “fully funded,” and emphasize the security and reliability of its promised benefits. In an uncertain world, however, even the Canada Pension Plan makes no guarantees. Ottawa and the provinces should explain the risks of the plan more clearly, and create new regulations to protect younger Canadians by limiting potential contribution-rate increases.…
Intelligence Memos
From: John Richards
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: August 31, 2017
Re: A Back to School Wake-up Call
In an industrial age, whether a country educates its children well is perhaps the most important determinant of whether the next generation will be prosperous or poor, whether income inequality will be high or low.
Good schools are not a panacea for avoiding all social ills, but weak schools are a…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and William Robson
To: Participants in the Canada Pension Plan
Date: September 7, 2017
Re: Investment Risks in an Expanded CPP
Our report in April, Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks, highlighted the possibility that disappointing investment returns in the expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP2) will force younger Canadians to bail the plan out, and urged provisions to protect them. It…
Intelligence Memos
From: Parisa Mahboubi
To: Canada’s ministers of education and skills development
Date: November 20, 2017
Re: High Education, Lower Literacy: What to Do?
Canada’s workforce has experienced a troubling slide in literacy and numeracy skills, despite higher levels of education and improvements in learning technology.
In my report last week I compared results of international…
Intelligence Memos
From: Thorsten Koeppl
To: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Date: May 18, 2017
Re: What the “Terminator” Tells Us about Blockchain and your Privacy
The Blockchain revolution is here. And, in many ways, it is like the Internet was when it started 20 years ago. We did not know how we would be affected, but we all had a feeling that this is going to be big. After…
