A new idea from AIMS would create a modern employment insurance system that meets the needs of workers and employers. Here’s how the new system would work: Payroll deductions would go into an individual Personal Security Account for each worker. Individuals who lose work could draw benefits under a single national standard, [...]
A new idea from AIMS would create a modern employment insurance system that meets the needs of workers and employers. Here’s how the new system would work: Payroll deductions would go into an individual Personal Security Account for each worker. Individuals who lose work could draw benefits under a single national [...]
by PATRICK WEBBER (AIMS Research Associate) A recent article in The Telegraph-Journal reported that since April 2015 the New Brunswick government has provided $21 million to nine different call centres, in the form of loans, forgivable loans, and payroll rebates. These funds resulted in the creation of 2,100 jobs, or about $10,000 per job. Cheryl [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Guelph Mercury Tribune, 27 September 2017 The Record, 27 September 2017 The Hamilton Spectator, 27 September 2017 The Windsor Star, 21 September 2017 Business Vancouver, 6 October 2017 People in Ann Arbor, Michigan are about to experience home food delivery without a driver. Domino’s Pizza and Ford have paired [...]
By PATRICK LUCIANI (AIMS Senior Fellow) Financial Post, 12 September 2017 McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute just released a major study comparing the benefits of various diets around the world. After surveying 135,000 people over seven years in 18 countries, the study concluded that we should be eating more fats, more fruits and vegetables [...]
By JUSTIN HATHERLY (AIMS Author) While Canadians are justifiably proud of the social programs their country offers, there are programs that are poorly designed, riddled with perverse incentives that exacerbate the problem they intend to correct. Employment Insurance (EI) is one such problem. EI does provide transient income supporter to workers who have lost their [...]
On September 8th, 2017, CBC New Brunswick reported on the alternative system of Employment Insurance proposed in the 2017 AIMS study "From Tax to Security: an alternative to Employment Insurance" to better help Atlantic Canadians with their savings. Read the full report here
From tax to security: an alternative to Employment Insurance – by Justin Hatherly proposes an alternative to the current employment insurance system that would discourage dependence on seasonal work, promote productivity and labour mobility, and end a practice that has damaged Atlantic Canada. Hatherly says that the Chilean system gives people a greater incentive to [...]
By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS (AIMS Senior Fellow) Canadian Investor, 29 August 2017 Kitchener Post, 08 September 2017 Vancouver Sun, 12 September 2017 Amazon is not wasting time. Speed of execution is at the essence of Amazon’s model. As soon as U.S. regulators approved its acquisition of Whole Foods, it announced that it would aggressively reduce the price of several [...]
On August 21st, 2017, Marco Navarro-Génie appeared in the Acadie Nouvelle Read full article here