{"id":24853,"date":"2024-04-21T19:48:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/disabled-people-wont-avoid-poverty-with-200-month-advocate\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:48:43","slug":"disabled-people-wont-avoid-poverty-with-200-month-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/disabled-people-wont-avoid-poverty-with-200-month-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabled people won&#8217;t avoid poverty with $200\/month: advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/65LOetp3og0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The federal budget includes a new benefit for disabled Canadians. It would max out at $200 per month. Disability advocates say that\u2019s not enough to materially change circumstances for the many people living in poverty. CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks to Janet Rodriguez, a Canadian with disabilities, about the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on TikTok:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal budget includes a new benefit for disabled Canadians. It would max out at $200 per month. Disability advocates say that\u2019s not enough to materially change circumstances for the many people living in poverty. CBC chief political correspondent Rosemary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25260,25261,86,87,25262,22426,1644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}