{"id":9683,"date":"2018-01-23T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=9683"},"modified":"2018-01-23T19:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T00:16:46","slug":"wynne-liberals-making-it-more-difficult-for-ontario-families-in-2018-horwath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/wynne-liberals-making-it-more-difficult-for-ontario-families-in-2018-horwath\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynne Liberals making it more difficult for Ontario families in 2018: Horwath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Jan 23, 2018 @ 19:14<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the latest commentary by Ontario\u2019s Financial Accountability Office, released Tuesday, shows how life is getting harder for Ontario families. Horwath released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cToday\u2019s report by the FAO highlights what too many Ontarians already know \u2014 families are being squeezed. Under the Wynne Liberals, Ontario household debt is increasing faster than the rest of Canada. People are taking on more and more debt just to pay for the basics like rent, medicine, and electricity. It\u2019s time for a new direction \u2013 one that makes life a little easier for folks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Costs are increasing, but middle-class wages are not. According to the census, median household income growth between 2005 and 2015 was only 3.8 <\/em>percent<em> \u2013 the lowest in the country by far, compared to provinces that saw their median income grow by more than 30 <\/em>percent<em> over the decade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>We just can\u2019t keep going in the direction of skyrocketing hydro, risings rents and unaffordable drug costs. The Conservatives and Wynne Liberals\u2019 plan to keep Hydro One private, driving up the cost of electricity, must be stopped. And cuts \u2013 like Patrick Brown\u2019s plan to cut $6.1 billion in services we all count on \u2013 will only make things tighter for households.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>There\u2019s hope for relief. It really doesn\u2019t have to keep heading in this direction. New Democrats have a plan for prescription drugs for everyone, regardless of age and income. We will bring Hydro One back into public hands to get electricity bills <\/em>down,<em> and keep them down. And we\u2019ll help deliver affordable housing so families can afford to stay in their neighborhood and raise their kids in the city that they call home.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 23, 2018 @ 19:14 NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the latest commentary by Ontario\u2019s Financial Accountability Office, released Tuesday, shows how life is getting harder for Ontario families. Horwath released the following statement: &nbsp; \u201cToday\u2019s report by the FAO highlights what too many Ontarians already know \u2014 families are being squeezed. Under the Wynne &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-andrea-horwath"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 04:16:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}