Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. For other months, visit: http://policyalternatives.ca/index
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Economy and economic indicators
Inside this issue:
BC Jobs Plan reality check: The first two years by Iglika Ivanova
Legal safeguards for tenants are meaningless without enforcement by Kendra Milne
Anti-poverty movement, meet the culture of medicine by Dr. Vanessa Brcic
You always learn something when accountants feud by Keith Reynolds
BC’s “big favour”: Will LNG exports reduce global greenhouse gas emissions? by Marc Lee
Readers' reaction to my "Cui Bono" column in the February issue has been mixed. Most agreed with my rather somber depiction of uncontrolled capitalism as the main cause of large-scale inequality, poverty, conflict, preventable disease, and the erosion of democracy. But others thought I had exaggerated the dominant global economic system's threat to human "civilization" and to the planet itself.
Nearly all the responders feared I had taken a view so dour that it implied "resistance is futile."
Renowned Canadian political economist and long-time CCPA research associate Mel Watkins passed away on April 2, 2020. To remember Mel and celebrate his work, the CCPA is re-releasing The Staple Theory @50, originally published in March 2014, with the following new introduction by Jim Stanford.
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The 2014 Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget provides a blueprint and lays out more than 99 ways that our government can improve the province for all of us—including how we can begin addressing income inequality and build a strong and more prosperous province where more of us share in that prosperity.
This year’s alternative budget is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 40 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations.
Halifax—Another new government and another opportunity to consider what the next four years and beyond will bring for Nova Scotians. It is critical for Nova Scotians to hold our governments accountable for the choices that it makes or doesn’t make on our behalf. This year’s Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget (APB) provides a blueprint and lays out more than 99 ways that our government can improve the province for all of us.
By substantially raising EIA shelter rates and increasing child care spaces, new apprenticeship programs and support to social enterprises, the province is taking action to assist low income people to overcome barriers to education and employment.
The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure. Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels. Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have about one in 10 living below acceptable low-income cut-offs.
Inside this issue:
The Ombudsperson’s Report on Seniors Care: A Brief Analysis of the Government’s (Non)Response by Marcy Cohen and Janine Farrell
Are we undermining our schools by not investing enough in education? by Iglika Ivanova
BC’s GHG targets and LNG: not compatible by Marc Lee
BC’s public sector pensions plans need to divest from fossil fuels by Marc Lee
Are big-five forest firms about to get a windfall? by Ben Parfitt
时间已经过去两年，不列颠哥伦比亚省就业计划难于兑现
作者：伊格利卡·伊万诺娃 （Iglika Ivanova）
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在很多地方的文化中，传统上一般新年愿望都是希望实现繁荣。但是经过一年的经济缓慢增长，不列颠哥伦比亚省实际上在失去很多工作岗位，这个省只有很少数家庭能看到此愿望的实现。
至少来说，这么弱的就业市场表现在经济危机四年之后的经济复苏中实属罕见。这导致不列颠哥伦比亚省居民不得不怀疑省政府的龙头经济刺激策略--不列颠哥伦比亚省就业计划，正在面临失败。
我在加拿大政策选择中心(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)发表的一份新的报告可以就这个问题提供一些答案。 不列颠哥伦比亚省就业计划实施检测报告就2011年9月就业计划宣布实施以来的近两年中劳动力市场表现指标进行了仔细检查，并与经济复苏进度进行了比较。
调查结果显示经济复苏并没有使工作机会增加－－ 不列颠哥伦比亚省就业计划并未奏效。尽管全加拿大就业市场复苏的表现已经令人失望，但不列颠哥伦比亚省的表现仍低于全国平均水平。高于经济危机之前水平2％的居高不下的失业率只是冰山的一角。