Academic   Public Policy Economic Trends and Analysis
Newspaper Editorials

Academic

“Cycling on and off Welfare in Canada,” Journal of Social Policy, 39 (04), pp. 523-542. 2010.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

 “‘Not disabled enough’: Episodic disabilities and the Ontario Disability Support Program”, Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3. 2009.  With E. Lightman, A. Vick and D. Herd.

 “Searching for Local Solutions: Making Welfare Policy on the Ground in Ontario”, Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 129-151.  2009. With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

 “Welfare Time Limits: Symbolism and Practice”, Canadian Review of Social Policy, Number 59, pp. 3-19.  2007.  With D. Herd and E. Lightman.

 “Returning to Ontario Works”, Canadian Review of Social Policy, Number 59, pp. 20-43. 2007. With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

“Precarious Lives: Health, Hunger and Welfare in Toronto”, Journal of Policy Practice, Vol. 7(4), 242-259.  2008.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

 “Globalization, Precarious Work, and the Food Bank”, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Vol. XXXV,  No. 2, June: 9–28.  2008.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

 “Exploring the Local Implementation of Ontario Works”, Studies in Political Economy, 28, Autumn 2006: 119-143.  2006.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

“Work-First and Immigrants in Toronto”, Social Policy and Society, vol. 6, no.3.  2006.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

“Welfare to what? After Ontario Works in Toronto,” International Social Security Review, Volume 58, no. 4, pp. 95 - 106.  2005.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

“Workfare in Toronto: More of the Same?” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Volume 32, No. 4, December, pp. 65 – 75.  2005.  With E. Lightman, and D. Herd.

 "Rituals of Degradation: Administration as Policy in the Ontario Works Program" (with Ernie Lightman and Dean Herd), University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work, Social Assistance in the New Economy Project, June 2003.

"The Relationship between Poverty and Child Health: Long Range Implications" (with Gail Aitken), Canadian Review of Social Policy, Issue 35, Spring 1995, pp. 19 - 36.

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Public Policy

"Are Statistics Canada's Low-Income Cutoffs an absolute or relative poverty measure?", 2008, with Richard Shillington. Read it here.

"Discouraged, diverted and disentitled, an analysis of the new service delivery model under Ontario Works” (with Dean Herd), Toronto: the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and the Ontario Social Safety Network, September 2002.

“Poverty, Inequality and Social Inclusion”, (with E. Richard Shillington), working paper for the Laidlaw Foundation Children at Risk Program, September 2002.

“Tracking the outcomes of welfare reform,” (with Ernie Lightman and Richard Shillington), Workfare Watch Bulletin #14, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, April 2002.

“Ontario Works and Jobs in the Toronto CMA,” Workfare Watch Bulletin #14, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, January 2002.

“After the Boom,” Workfare Watch Bulletin #13, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, August 2001.

“Mandatory Drug and Literacy Testing,” Workfare Watch Bulletin #12, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, May 2001.

"Welfare and the Myth of Dependency," Workfare Watch Bulletin #11, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, November 2000.

"A Backwards STEP," Workfare Watch Bulletin #10, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, September 2000.

"General Tax Relief: Impacts on Canada's families," (with Professor Ernie Lightman), Child Poverty Action Group and the Child Care Education Foundation, February 2000.

"Workfare: Symbolic Purposes at the Expense of Substantive Purposes," Workfare Watch Bulletin #9, Toronto: The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, December 1999.

"Broken Promises: The Failure of Welfare Reform, The Ontario Social Safety NetWork and the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, May 1999.

Bill 142, the Social Assistance Reform Act, Brief to the Ontario Standing Committee on Social Development, September 1997.

Workfare Watch, Quarterly newsletters, Issues 1 - 6, Toronto: The Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto and the Ontario Social Safety NetWork, 1996 onwards.

"Workfare: What we know", Social Infopac, Vol. 14, no. 4, May 1996, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

"The Political Economy of Workfare", Social Infopac, Vol. 14, no. 5, December 1996, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

"Profiting from Need?" (with Ian Morrison), Ontario Social Safety NetWork Backgrounder on Bill 142 - the Social Assistance Reform Act, Toronto: Ontario Social Safety NetWork, August 1997.

"Welfare Cuts in Ontario: Punishing the Poor", Social Infopac, Vol. 14, no. 1, September 1995, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

"Welfare Reform in Ontario: Turning POINT or Turning BACK?" Social Infopac, Vol. 12, No. 3, August 1993, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro.

"The Impact of the New Federal Child Benefit on Families in Metro Toronto", Social Infopac, Vol. 11, No. 3, May 1992, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

Unequal Futures: The Legacy of Child Poverty in Canada, (with Brigitte Kitchen, Marvyn Novick and Peter Clutterbuck), Toronto: Child Poverty Action Group and The Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 1991.

"A Look At Poverty Lines", Social Infopac, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1990, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

"Too Old To Work? Older Workers in Toronto's Labour Market", Social Infopac, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 1988, Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

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Economic Trends and Analysis

"Will there be jobs?", Ontario Social Safety NetWork Backgrounder on Bill 142 - The Social Assistance Reform Act, Toronto: Ontario Social Safety NetWork, August 1997.

"Ontario Budget Backgrounder," Toronto: The Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, May 6, 1996

"The Outsiders: A Report on the Prospects for Young Families in Metro Toronto", The Child Poverty Action Group, The Family Service Association of Metropolitan Toronto and the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 1994.

"Young Workers and Toronto's 'Triple Dip' Recession", Social Infopac, Vol. 13, No. 1, Toronto: The Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto, June 1994

"Ontario's Families and Children: A Demographic Profile," in Laura C. Johnson and Richard Barnhorst (eds.), The State of the Child in Ontario, Child, Youth and Family Policy Research Centre, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991.

"The Economic Circumstances of Ontario's Families and Children," in Laura C. Johnson and Richard Barnhorst (eds.), The State of the Child in Ontario, Child, Youth and Family Policy Research Centre, Oxford University Press, Toronto: 1991.

"Recession and Recovery", (with T. Baker and A. Yalnizyan), Social Infopac, Vol. 10, No. 3, Toronto: The Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto, August 1991.

"Housing Affordability in Metropolitan Toronto", Social Infopac, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 1989, Toronto: The Social Planning Council of Metro Toronto.

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Newspaper Editorials

"It's Open Season on Welfare," with Ian Morrison, The Toronto Star, March 22, 1994.

"Surprise ... the rich don't pay their share of taxes," with Mary Pat MacKinnon, The London Free Press, May 15, 1993.

"Suddenly the poor are middle class," with Brigitte Kitchen, The Toronto Star, July 31, 1992.