POL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sexual Orientation, Pension, Heteronormativity
18 Sep 2016
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Political decisions by government determine weather or not you have a job in the future. Child poverty: with a child poverty rate of 19. 6% canada ranks 29th in the world (denmark 3. 7%) toronto child poverty rate 28. 6% Child tax benefits in 2015: maximum per year. Politics is a process of making decisions in the public realm, reconciling competing claims and visions of what government should or should not do. Politics is a process of defining the public interest, what is best for he people of. The challenge of politics is to enable governments municipal, provincial and federal to effectively deal with issues and problems and improve the quality of life of as many canadians as possible. Ontario: . 25/hr or ,400 a year before taxes (low income cut-off for one person is ,590, ,495 for two people) ^after deducting cpp, technically someone who is working minimum wage is at the cut off for low income.
