Ryan Romard
Ryan Romard (He/Him) is a sociologist, research analyst, and data science enthusiast. Ryan has several years of experience conducting survey research in Ontario’s public school system and was the CCPA’s 2022 Progressive Economics Fellow.
Ontario’s universities and colleges are in a state of financial crisis. Across the province, post-secondary institutions, citing a lack of revenue needed to fund operations,…
With the Ontario election well underway, we should be having a debate about how to pay for the things the province urgently needs.
Public policy researchers spill a lot of ink on housing affordability, but we pay a lot less attention to residential construction as an employment sector.…
Affordability discontent dominates Canada’s political and economic landscape—it was rated the top issue in politics as we rang in 2024 and remained in the lead…
Over the last three decades, no province in Canada has moved more aggressively, or more consistently, to cut public funding to universities than Ontario. Ontario’s…
Despite bad-faith arguments from opponents, the data makes clear that debt-holders are poorer than the average
The structure of student debt forces debt-holders into precarious financial positions early in life—and its difficult to get out
Making postsecondary education affordable means more than reducing fees
We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.
The history of student debt in Canada paints a dire picture of a worsening situation for students and graduates. It’s time governments take it seriously.
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