On today’s show, two sociologists talk about aspects of neoliberal restructuring. First, Nicole Aschoff, sociologist, author of The New Prophets of Capital and until very recently managing editor of Jacobin magazine speaks with me about the auto industry, Trump and why globalization shouldn’t be solely blamed for the destruction of
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Helping Someone Apply for Social Security Disability Benefits
A Guest Post by Donna FitzgeraldAs a caregiver, it’s likely you’ve helped to fill out and assisted with mountains of important paperwork. If you are caring for a loved one or have recently become employed to help care for someone with a debilitatin…
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Some Things to Know Before Applying
Organizing and Preparation
Helping with the Application Process
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Autonomy For All: Government That Works: CPP is Healthy Say Actuaries
Every 3 years the Canada Pension Plan is analyzed by professional actuaries (with peer review by independent actuaries picked by the UK government) to analyze its financies against the best practice means of assessing likely future pay outs and revenue…
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Every 3 years the Canada Pension Plan is analyzed by professional actuaries (with peer review by independent actuaries picked by the UK government) to analyze its financies against the best practice means of assessing likely future pay outs and revenue. Once again, the 26th such report finds the CPP is
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Government That Works: CPP is Healthy Say Actuaries
Every 3 years the Canada Pension Plan is analyzed by professional actuaries (with peer review by independent actuaries picked by the UK government) to analyze its financies against the best practice means of assessing likely future pay outs and revenue. Once again, the 26th such report finds the CPP is
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Guest Post: Applying For Social Security Benefits for Your Loved One and For Yourself
If you provide ongoing care for a disabled individual, then you may need to be the one who applies for benefits on his or her behalf. There are additionally some state and local programs that provide additional benefits directly to full-time caregivers of the disabled, which means that you may
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Conservative Pension Behavioural Utopianism
Conservatives like to portray themselves as hard-bitten “realists” who look objectively at the world as it really is and shake their heads at silly liberals with our rose coloured glasses. Yet I often find conservatives pushing policy ideas that are based on Utopian standards of human behaviour. This is where they make
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What If The Peasants All Start Talking Like This?
In Washington the Social Security narrative has been captured by the political classes and stood directly on its head, the better to tear it to shreds. So powerfully has this been done that even the word “entitlement” has been transformed to mean not something deserved but something somehow undeserved, a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Propaganda Busting – Social Security
Anyone who follows American politics will have heard the Right’s endless demands for “entitlement reform.” They argue that Social Security is on the verge of insolvency and therefore payouts need to be trimmed. After all, how can you maintain insane tax cuts for the rich if you have to pay
Continue readingthe reeves report: Mowat Centre report finds current EI system riddled with “systemic inequities”
Employment Insurance available through Service Canada Making It Work, the latest report from the Mowat Centre at the University of Toronto, has taken aim at Canada’s system of Employment Insurance (EI), one of the cornerstone’s of Canada’s welfare state system. Riddled with “systemic inequities” and “regional political considerations,” the EI
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Social Security, Full Tilt Poker, has ‘Ponzi Scheme’ ceased to have any meaning?
First there was GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry further popularizing the notion that Social Security was a ponzi scheme, now we have the US DOJ claiming that the shenanigans at Full Tilt Poker is a ponzi scheme as well.
A ponzi scheme isn’…
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Yay! Here’s a Tuesday Night game for you: What rabidteabag-festoonedfoaming-the-mouthwingnutcalled Social Security a “Ponzi Scheme” whose days are numbered? “First, I think Freeman is over-optimistic when he asserts that there is consensusSocial Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out […]
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: Talking to political adversaries: Tips on reaching across the aisle
Tips on talking to political adversaries. Moving past politics, partisanship and labels, recognizing corporatism masquerading as progressivism or conservatism, and going straight to the issues.
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