CBC radio host Matt Galloway welcomed Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton  and Inclusive Local Economies Program Director Adriana Beemans into the Metro Morning studio to discuss...

One of the foremost experts on poverty in Canada, John Stapleton has dedicated the greater part of the past fifty years to improving income security for all Canadians. Following a twenty-eight year...

The Metcalf Innovation Fellowship program was created to provide critical thinkers with the opportunity to tackle hard questions and propose solutions to systemic issues. A Metcalf Innovation Fellow...

Please join us for a webinar on Wednesday, April 29 at 2:30pm with Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton where we discuss his latest report, The Working Poor in the Toronto Region: Mapping working poverty in Canada’s richest city.

Working poverty continues to creep upward in Toronto. From 2006 to 2012, working poverty increased from 9.9% to 10.7% of the working-age population in the City of Toronto and from 8.2% to 10.7% in...

Please join us for the launch of Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton’s latest report, The “Welfarization” of Disability Incomes in Ontario.  There will be a public presentation and panel discussion of the paper on Friday, December 13, 2013 at 2pm.

Workshop Presentation in conjunction with release of paper by Metcalf Fellow John Stapleton.

Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton explores the difficulties that social assistance recipients face when pursuing self-employment.

Please join us on December 2nd, 2010 for a discussion with John Stapleton, Catherine Porter, Linda Chamberlain, and Pat Capponi about the issues raised in this paper.

In 2017, anti-poverty activist Bee Lee Soh and John Stapleton were selected to participate on the federal government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Poverty. Despite the best of intentions to create an inclusive process, Soh faced many challenges to participation. In Voice of Experience: Engaging People with Lived Experience of Poverty in Consultations, Stapleton and Soh identify barriers and impediments to participation, and suggest ways in which government entities can address these barriers to ensure successful inclusion of people with lived experience of poverty in policy consultations.

Workshop Presentation in conjunction with release of paper by Metcalf Fellow John Stapleton.

Written by Metcalf Fellow John Stapleton, with contributions by Dr. Carl James and Dr. Kofi Hope, The Working Poor in the Toronto Region is Metcalf’s third in a series aimed at illuminating the realities of working poverty in our region and providing an overview of the factors driving the continued rise in numbers. Drawing on census data from 2016, and by disaggregating the data, Stapleton identifies that in Toronto CMA, 46% of the working-age population is racialized, yet 63% of the working poor are racialized. Some of the highest rates of working poverty are among Toronto’s Black communities. Dr. James and Dr. Hope provide contextual framing for how this data might be interpreted.

Metcalf Innovation Fellow John Stapleton’s recent report, "The Working Poor in the Toronto Region" shows that the number of people who work and yet live in poverty continues to increase. To provide insight into these trends, Metcalf invited three colleagues to share their thoughts on the report.

The “Working Poor” in the Toronto Region: Who they are, where they live, and how trends are changing, is the first report to look at working poverty in the Toronto Region. According to the...

Overly strict welfare eligibility rules are forcing Ontario’s newly unemployed to divest themselves of all their assets, crippling their chances for an economic recovery. Why Don’t We Want the...

Income Security for Working-Age Adults in Canada: Let’s consider the model under our nose builds upon the recommendations outlined in Stapleton’s 2007 Metcalf report, Why Is It So Tough To Get...

In late 2016, the Ontario government announced its intention to carry out a basic income pilot project in communities across the province. Using the budgets of four people receiving income security benefits, John Stapleton’s report reveals how each person is served by our current income security system and how a basic income could alter their circumstances.

Canada’s disability income expenditures are rising at an unsustainable rate and the largest and fastest growing program is social assistance. Nowhere is this more evident than in Ontario where ODSP...

Cutting Through the Fog: Why is it so hard to make sense of poverty measures? is about the challenges facing citizens when presented with statistics on poverty. It emphasizes the need to question the...

Zero Dollar Linda explores the weaknesses in the design of North American social welfare institutions through the stories of two individuals. It shows what can happen to people when they receive the...

This report traces the evolution of income-security programs for seniors and children in Canada. It looks at patterns to see what we can learn about reforming income security for working age...

Ontario’s recent bill of rights for gig workers skips the benefits, the sick pay, and even the minimum wage. Independent contractors have a better idea: just classify them as employees.

John Stapleton joins fellow panelists to discuss the possibility of breaking the cycle of poverty in Ontario, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO. September 23, 2014. 42 min.

We cannot claim to have people-centred government policies. Not when an 18-year-old, lone-parent refugee is considered to be an adult under four policies, a child under two, a student under a third...