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Income inequality: One of the great challenges of our times
Income inequality isn’t just about salaries—it’s a pervasive problem with dire implications on a range of social issues, from health to the environment to education.
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The Monitor, March/April 2023
Our experts at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives have long analyzed entrenched income inequality in Canada. We make a special focus of it in…
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Fast Facts: Whose Freedom?
The Convoy that took over Ottawa for a month last year just met outside Winnipeg this past weekend. While the right to protest is an…
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of large sections of the Ontario economy. In a few short months, total economic activity in…
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.
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Fast Facts: Manitoba Needs Programs like BUILD
A version of this article was published in the Winnipeg Free Press January 11, 2022 Just before the holidays, BUILD, Inc. announced the closure of…
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Breakfast of champions
Record-breaking total compensation: Average pay for the best-paid 100 CEOs hit $14.3 million in 2021, smashing the previous record of $11.8 million in 2018 and setting…
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The crisis in the care economy shows no sign of letting up
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #6: Workers in the care economy have been battered over the past two years, and that crisis shows no signs of slowing.
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Feminist Leadership makes all the difference in CUPE strike
The labour movement is a women’s movement. Bringing a feminist perspective to labour makes it stronger.
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The pandemic has accelerated the exit of older workers
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #4: A new trend is emerging—women workers taking early retirement, especially in pandemic-affected industries.
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Low-wage workers are most exposed to spiralling costs
Bumpy Ride Fall 2022 Update #3: Fall 2022 labour force data shows that pandemic-vulnerable sectors still have not recovered from COVID-19.
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A tale of two pandemics: the rich and the rest of us
On the whole, Canada’s richest one per cent got a decent raise in the first year of the pandemic; the bottom 50 per cent? Not so much.
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