Improving Access to Food and Essential Needs: Options for a More Generous Cash-Transfer Benefit
The ongoing cost-of-living crisis has highlighted the deficiencies in Canada’s social safety net. Provincial social assistance programs, which are supposed to provide a minimum level of income to buy food and other essential needs, fall short. Low-income households, which spend a larger proportion of their income on basic needs, are most affected by food and shelter inflation. Single parents and...