CCPA-Ontario Director Trish Hennessy commits sociology in economic soundbites with her periodic look at income inequality in Canada and at the provincial level. Hennessy's Index reminds us that a number is never just a number.
Please note that Hennessy's Index is currently on hiatus.
2015
- Ontario's Precariat (June 2015)
- About Women (March 2015)
- The Appeal of Middle Class Economics (February 2015)
- Political Divides (January 2015)
2014
- Billionaires (December 2014)
- Minimum Wage (November 2014)
- Good Jobs | Bad Jobs (October 2014)
- Crude: Lac-Mégantic By the Numbers (September 2014)
- What Costs More: Child Care or University Tuition? (August 2014)
- Voter Turnout: How low can we go? (June 2014)
- Middle Class Angst (May 2014)
- Ontario Equal Pay Day Facts (April 2014, Equal Pay Day special edition)
- The Skills Gap Trope (April 2014)
- Tax Cuts 101 (March 2014)
- Perks for the Rich: Income Splitting (February 2014)
- Out with the Old: Words primed for retirement in 2014 (January 2014)
2013
- 2013: Year in Review (December 2013)
- Wal-Mart or Costco? (November 2013)
- Pseudo Census (October 2013)
- Unions (September 2013)
- Canada's Pay Gap (April 2013)
- What is Middle Class? (March 2013)
- The Dominance of Canada's 1% (February 2013)
- First Nations: The Long Shadow of Assimilation (January 2013)
2012
- In Search of Child Care (December 2012)
- Idea Factory (November 2012)
- Abortion and Women's Rights (October 2012)
- The Sustainability Challenge (September 2012)
- Crime, Punishment and Politics (August 2012)
- Food for Thought (July 2012)
- Austerity's Discontents (June 2012)
- Taxing Times (May 2012)
- Federal Budget 2012: Death by 1,000 Cuts (April 2012)
- Election 2011: Voter Suppression (March 2012)
- Grey Power (February 2012)
- Predictions (January 2012)
2011
- Season of Giving (December 2011)
- Agitating for Change (November 2011)
- In the Red (October 2011)
- It's a Living (September 2011)
- Gone Fishin' (August 2011)
- Canada vs the OECD (July 2011)
- Minimum Wage vs Living Wage (June 2011)
- Election Jawdroppers (May 2011)
- Democracy (April 2011)
- Security/Insecurity (March 2011)
- Inequality (February 2011)