{"id":21353,"date":"2022-08-08T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=21353"},"modified":"2022-08-08T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T12:03:14","slug":"pandemic-benefits-were-too-generous-with-businesses-stringent-with-workers-experts-citynews-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=21353","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic benefits were too generous with businesses, stringent with workers: experts &#8211; CityNews Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed vulnerable Canadians to stay healthy while maintaining an income, but business supports were excessive and show the outsized influence of business groups on public policy, economists say<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/national-news\/pandemic-benefits-were-too-generous-with-businesses-stringent-with-workers-experts-5666493\">Pandemic benefits were too generous with businesses, stringent with workers: experts &#8211; CityNews Ottawa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That said, Corak said while the CERB was &#8220;terribly successful,&#8221; the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy was a &#8220;huge failure.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Canada Emergency Response Benefit got money out the door quickly in time to keep people at home, which is what we wanted to do to save lives,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Corak said the CEWS &#8220;came too late, it wasn&#8217;t well-targeted and dramatically over-insured (businesses).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[84,332,169,18,140],"class_list":["post-21353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-canada","tag-cerb","tag-covid-19","tag-economics","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}