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EI System needs stable funding: think tank

EI System needs stable funding: think tank

In EI System needs stable funding: think tank, (Financial Post, June 17th 2009), Paul Vieira reports that as political leaders in Ottawa squabble to the edge of an election over Employment Insurance, a C.D. Howe Institute study highlights two critical issues being missed in the discourse: stable funding and insulation from political interference.

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Regional Equity in EI Access Long Overdue, according to C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby

Regional Equity in EI Access Long Overdue, according to C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby

In Stop the Damage from Regionally Biased EI, (The Calgary Herald, March 23rd 2009), C.D. Howe Institute Policy Analyst, Colin Busby, finds that mounting job losses in previously booming areas, Ontario and Alberta, will cause many of the unemployed to fall into a less forgiving insurance net than those in Quebec and eastward. Busby maintains that policymakers ought to pursue an EI system that better supports economic stability, despite the inevitable expense, and recommends that Ottawa introduce uniform EI entrance requirements.

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