Welfare Rates: Todd Donohue

Todd Donohue: Welfare recipients in Manitoba get enough money for a bare-bones existence but they live far below several different poverty lines. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Living on social assistance Todd Donohue says welfare rates consistently fall short of the real cost of living, especially for housing. But instead of boosting overall welfare rates, the province should begin moving single parents and the disabled off welfare and into work as the best cure for chronic poverty. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.