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The @SpringboardPol project on the time tax in Canada has a new publication out through the CSA Group. They have 18 actionable approaches to address the underlying sources of the time tax.

Featured in the OPC’s Real Results: an interview with @NoahZon, a lead researcher with the CSA Group, who looked at #privacy risks for children given the scope and scale of data collected by #AI from apps and toys they use. priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions… #ContributionsProgram

We regularly hear policy leaders tell us they could use fresh eyes on their files. So we're trying something new: office hours. For people leading policy in their orgs, come by and talk through what's on your mind. Check out more here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Our team writing in @TheHillTimes today building on our project on reducing the time tax in Canada springboardpolicy.com/time-tax

You can find our full series here springboardpolicy.com/time-tax We don’t want this to be the end of the conversation, we want it to be the start of one. If you are working on these issues we would love to hear from you - reach out at timetax@springboardpolicy.com

In our final installment, we highlight some of the ways - and there are many - that governments can take on the time tax. springboardpolicy.medium.com/reducing-the-t…

If you’ve been following our series on the time tax over the last few weeks, we have been focused on the problems - they are regressive, wasteful, and harmful. But we want to close our short series with a little bit of optimism: time taxes can be fixed.

@ZacSpicer We'd love to join the conversation if you're discussing this with future students!

Excellent series here on policy and program design and the “time tax”. I’ve encouraged students in the past to think through the consequences of poor design but this series brings everything together in a really engaging and concise way. Adding to a future syllabus

This series on the time tax in #CDNpoli is a must-read. Of course policy implementation is designed with the very berry best of intentions, but (way?) too often we are overloading applicants with unnecessary administrative burdens. We can, and must do better.

@JohnIECedu Thanks! Glad to hear that it resonates with your experiences. Well, it would be better if you didn’t have those experiences, but you get the point

Over the last few weeks, our series on the time tax has shown how unnecessary paperwork and requirements block people from accessing public services. The next installment in our series zooms in on how time taxes affect people with disabilities and immigrants.

@stateofthecity @VassB ❤️back at you, @stateofthecity

@VassB @stateofthecity "we'll do your homework for you" is not the worst slogan....

@stateofthecity @SpringboardPol It's fantastic work and I am grateful they are doing our homework for us. I'm really excited about the potential to improve the design of the delivery of these programs so that they are more accessible.

Find all of our time tax articles in one place, as they’re released springboardpolicy.com/time-tax

Next, we highlight how the immigration process is loaded with time tax, reducing trust in government right from the first impression. springboardpolicy.medium.com/spotlight-immi…

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Our next instalments in our series on the time tax will come next week. In the meantime you can catch up on Parts 1-5 here springboardpolicy.com/time-tax