United Way Elgin Middlesex
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To improve lives and build community by engaging individuals and mobilizing collective action. #LocalLove
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“Social assistance is too low for people with disabilities, too low for families with children, too low for individuals in crisis. This is taking a huge toll … on our whole community. It needs to be fixed.” - Kelly Ziegner #MakeItLivable
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When Ontarians on social assistance live in deep poverty, it costs us all: in loss of human dignity, poorer health and educational outcomes, and economic loss. So, yes, we need to #MakeItLivable . Be #UnitedInAction with us.
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I support doubling the social assistance rates to reduce poverty in Ontario! Thank you United Way Elgin Middlesex for this campaign. Sign the petition: Act Now unitedinaction.ca/act?recruiter_…
Social assistance rates in Ontario are so low that recipients’ incomes don’t even approach the poverty line. Because everyone deserves a dignified, livable income, we ask you to endorse our call to #MakeItLivable . ow.ly/wkSu50QrpMb #onpoli #UnitedInAction
Tonight CTV London, why United Way Elgin Middlesex says social assistance rates are not just inadequate- they’re “unlivable.” Catch the late news after the football game.
Covering tonight’s United in Action #MakeItLivable town hall at Wolf Performance Hall in #lndont . Hosted by United Way Elgin Middlesex. Stay tuned to hear discussion from panelists on current social assistance supports and next steps. #mmjconcloud9 MMJC at Western
Signed it. Thanks United Way Elgin Middlesex for a great session tonight. #MakeItLivable #ONpoli
#MakeItLivable campaign by United Way Elgin Middlesex Call to Action for ON government to double the social assistance rates and index both ODSP and OW rates to inflation. Bring people's income above the official poverty line!
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Thank you for attending the United Way Make It Livable Live event today!
Now it’s time to act. Endorse our recommendation asking the province to double social assistance rates unitedinaction.ca/act/
We’re United in Action for neighbours-in-need!
#MakeitLivable #UnitedInAction
“Understand you have power. You have the power to change the way people think about poverty”
Now it’s time to act. Endorse our recommendation asking the province to double social assistance rates unitedinaction.ca/act/
#MakeitLivable #UnitedInAction #ldnont #onpoli
People living on Ontario Works (OW) or the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) are living far below the poverty line.
Endorse our recommendation asking the province to double social assistance rates unitedinaction.ca/act/
#MakeitLivable #UnitedInAction #ldnont #onpoli
We are at WolfPerformanceHall for the United Way Elgin Middlesex ‘Make It Livable’ Town Hall happening now in #LdnOnt
A warm welcome to our keynote speaker, Elizabeth McIsaac, President of Maytree Foundation, a Canadian think-tank advocating for sustainable solutions to poverty.
Elizabeth McIsaac Maytree Foundation
#MakeitLivable #UnitedInAction #ldnont #onpoli