Prof. Andrew Mitchell

ndrew Mitchell is the senior research associate and project co-ordinator for the Social Assistance in the New Economy project at the Faculty of Social Work of the University of Toronto. The SANE project has received four major grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to conduct research into the changing nature of social assistance programs.  From 1990 to 2002 he was a Program Director at the Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto (now the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto) where he conducted research on poverty, government fiscal policy, the declining economic status of younger families and income security programs such as social assistance.  He served on the Low-income Relief Working Group of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission and has published commentaries on Ontario’s changing tax system.  Andrew also serves on the Public Affairs Committee of the Daily Bread Food Bank.