Make work pay

The former Government of Saskatchewan had announced This stark reality is not a small problem plans to link its minimum wage to Statistics when figures show that one in four workers Canada’s low income cut-off and index it to make just $10 an hour or less and close to inflation in 2010. [...] To make Another way for governments to help matters worse, the working poor must pay the working poor is to top up their low earn- income and payroll taxes, and cover the cost ings. [...] The as to harmonize it with their own income first is to reduce disincentives to work for security systems and policy priorities. [...] They might consider how ing Income Tax Benefit in its initial form is to strengthen the Working Income Tax Benefit geared mainly to the goal of helping recip- so that it fulfills its stated purpose of helping ients get over the welfare wall. [...] In 2008, the Working Income Tax Benefit for single recipients pays an annual Of course, the Working Income Tax maximum $510 − barely enough to help off- Benefit is only one in a string of measures set the rising cost of transportation and home needed to assist the working poor.