Prof. Ernie Lightman
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E rnie Lightman received his BA in economics and political science from the University of Toronto and his MA and PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. After graduation he taught for two years at the London School of Economics and for the last 30 years has been a professor of social policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Social Work. In 1991-92 he was a one person commission of inquiry looking into unregulated housing – boarding homes, care homes, retirement homes -for vulnerable adults in Ontario. He has published widely, in both academic and popular venues, on a range of topics through the years. For the last five years he has been Principal Investigator for a series of major studies funded by SSHRC on precarious work, workfare and welfare-to-work programs in Ontario. He is author of Social Policy in Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2003).
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