Income Security: A Roadmap for Change
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<strong>Income</strong> <strong>Security</strong> Re<strong>for</strong>m in the context of<br />
the Basic <strong>Income</strong> Pilot<br />
The Working Groups acknowledge the three-year Basic <strong>Income</strong><br />
Pilot that is underway in the province—an important experiment<br />
that will test a new way of providing income support. Many of<br />
the recommendations in this <strong>Roadmap</strong> are complementary to the<br />
Basic <strong>Income</strong> Pilot; lessons learned from the Basic <strong>Income</strong> Pilot and<br />
the first three years of this <strong>Roadmap</strong> will together be in<strong>for</strong>mative<br />
and provide an opportunity to refine and potentially adjust the<br />
<strong>Roadmap</strong> in the future.<br />
• From 1997 to 2015, non-standard employment grew at an average annual rate<br />
of 23% per year, nearly twice as fast as standard employment (12%) 6 <br />
• The Report of the Special Advisor <strong>for</strong> Ontario’s Changing Workplaces Review<br />
identifies a broad range of people experiencing precarious work, from new<br />
graduates involuntarily working part-time to individuals working multiple jobs<br />
to make ends meet 7 <br />
• Precarious employment can negatively affect a family’s quality of life and<br />
increase stress about financial decisions 8 <br />
• Poverty rates of workers in non-standard employment are two to three times<br />
higher than the poverty rates of workers in standard employment 9 <br />
6 Source: https://files.ontario.ca/books/mol_changing_workplace_report_eng_2_0.<br />
pdf pg 48<br />
7 Source: https://files.ontario.ca/books/mol_changing_workplace_report_eng_2_0.<br />
pdf pg 43–44<br />
8 Source: Lewchuk et al (2015) The Precarity Penalty: The impact of employment<br />
precarity on individuals, households and communities – and what to do about it<br />
https://wwwunitedwaytyrcom/documentdoc?id=307<br />
9 Source: https://files.ontario.ca/books/mol_changing_workplace_report_eng_2_0.<br />
pdf pg 48<br />
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