Canada’s social safety nets produce “humiliation and shame” — here’s why

Authors Vinod Rajasekaran & Kylie Adair
An in-depth conversation with the co-authors of The Trampoline Effect: Reimagining Our Social Safety Nets

Why It Matters

The pandemic is an opportunity to radically reimagine the ways Canadian government and civil society cares for people, say Sarah Schulman and Gord Tulloch — but to do so, both sectors need a deeper understanding of the problems embedded into our social safety nets.

var TRINITY_TTS_WP_CONFIG = {"cleanText":"Canada\u2019s social safety nets produce \u201chumiliation and shame\u201d \u2014 here\u2019s why. Depending on who you ask, Canada\u2019s social safety net has not held up to the test of COVID-19. And last Monday\u2019s federal budget patched some (even many) of the holes, but did not radically reimagine what it means to support vulnerable communities or help them flourish.\u00a0 Sarah Schulman and Gord Tulloch are the authors of a new book called The Trampoline Effect: Reimagining Our Social Safety Nets . The book envisions a future where social safety nets don\u2019t catch and trap the people who access them, but rather trampoline them back up when they\u2019re ready.\u00a0 How might this future come true? Future of Good publisher and CEO Vinod Rajase

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