Tangled Up In Welfare Rules: In the News

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Mike Riley, a Ve’ahavta Street Academy student, and other share their struggle for financial independence.

Read the article online: Fix welfare rules, panel urges province by Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter, The Toronto Star

“Every day is a struggle with no food in the fridge, dirty laundry piling up and no cable in my TV,” Riley says. “But I do have ambition. And I want a career, not just a minimum wage job that I’m going to hate and that won’t help me get ahead. And for that I need an education.”

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