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5) These findings lend support to calls for a restructuring of income security programs for working-age adults, highlighting the need to look beyond welfare to the full spectrum of programs that impact adults' incomes.

As currently budgeted, this includes federal spending on education, training, social services, health programs, veterans benefits and services, income security programs, Medicare and Social Security.

The welfare system had become something it was never intended to be--an income security program for almost 20% of Ontario's population.

The plan would basically give states responsibility for income security programs like AFDC, WIC and food stamps while Washington would take over Medicaid.

Steel voluntary recognition of the United Steelworkers; the monumental joint achievement of classifying every job in the entire industry, the elimination of regional and especially Southern wage differentials, pioneering pension and health insurance programs, expansion and some rationalization of incentive pay systems; the 13-week extended vacation plan to cushion the job shrinkage trends; the initiation of the highly significant expedited arbitration system; the first-ever joint human relations program; the unprecedented Experimental Negotiating Agreement no-strike arrangements; and the first comprehensive income security program for victims of shutdowns and prolonged layoffs.

The next largest dollar value increase is in the Income Security program area at $4.

More than 80 years ago a small group of MPs engaged in "vote trading" by giving their support to a faltering Liberal government in exchange for Canada's first national income security program.

In this Commentary, I briefly review the reasons why public pension reform is on the Quebec agenda, including the increasing prevalence of early retirement for which public income security programs are partially responsible.