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Income Inequality Un-Canadian: Poll
The Broadbent Institute has launched its new Equality Project with a poll by Environics Research that shows the majority of Canadians view growing income inequality as a big problem with long-term...
April 10, 2012 | National Office
Inequality: The role of unions and race
The University of Toronto's Richard Florida has an important two-part series in The Atlantic focusing on what is driving the growing income gap in American cities. In particular, he and...
March 8, 2012 | National Office
America or Sweden: Which would you choose?
Ask Americans, as Micheal I. Norton and Daniel Ariely did in this study, to build their ideal system of wealth distribution and...
February 22, 2012 | National Office
Infographic visualizes rising income inequality in Canada
Income inequality has been getting worse in Canada, rising at a faster pace than it has been in the U.S. The inequality is being driven by what’s happening at the very top of the income spectrum:...
January 25, 2012 | National Office
Infographic: Canada's CEO Elite 100
CBC Radio’s weekly series, Type A released a comprehensive infographic based on the Canadian Centre for Policy...
January 24, 2012 | National Office
OECD: Canada's income gap is at a record high
A new OECD report on income inequality among 34 industrialized nations asserts what CCPA research has long revealed: Canada's income gap is at a record high. As the Globe and Mail reports in this...
December 5, 2011 | National Office
Carbon footprints increase with income
A new CCPA report finds household carbon footprints increase with income. In fact, the richest 20% of Canadian households are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas emissions of those in...
November 15, 2011 | National Office
Hindsight is 1920
Income inequality is the worst it’s been in 90 years, worse even than at its previous peak in the Roaring Twenties. As the gap widens between the rich and poor, economists predict growing unrest...
November 7, 2011 | National Office
Are You the 99%?
Macleans magazine has created a great simple online calculator to help Canadians see where they belong on the income inequality scale....
October 25, 2011 | National Office
Occupy Wall Street Reframes the Problem: It's About the 99%
In a new blog post, the CCPA's Trish Hennessy looks at the evolution of framing income inequality and how the Occupy Wall Street movement has shifted the frame once more....
October 13, 2011 | National Office

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