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OnPolicy: Ontario’s Working Poor
Summer 2016 Download 9.79 MB 60 pages This issue of OnPolicy gives you a road map to working poverty in nine Ontario cities: Ottawa, London, Toronto,…
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The Monitor, July/August 2016
Media, Internet, Algorithm Download 6.9 MB When Marc Edge and Robert Hackett approached the CCPA about guest editing an issue of the Monitor on the…
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Can the Bank of Canada provide interest-free loans?
As Monitor readers may be aware, the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) is sponsoring a court case that argues the Bank of Canada…
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The politics of exit contradict our unprecedented connection
Britain’s largely unexpected decision to leave the European Union has unleashed political and economic mayhem that will change the world. Whether those changes flow with…
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BC needs to get to work on working poverty
Over 100,000 working-age people in Metro Vancouver were working but stuck below the poverty line in 2012, not counting students and young adults living at…
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Why Canada’s long-term fiscal prospects are not a hot mess
There’s been so much bad economic news in the past few days, it kind of feels normal to hear more of it. And pointless. It…
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Working poverty on the rise in most Metro Vancouver municipalities
(Vancouver) Contrary to stereotypes about poverty being concentrated mainly in Vancouver and Surrey, a new study finds the growing ranks of the working poor are…
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Working Poverty in Metro Vancouver
Download 4.09 MB36 pages This study examines Metro Vancouver working poverty trends by neighbourhood pre- and post- the 2008 recession. We are often told that…
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The hidden epidemic of working poverty in Metro Vancouver
We are often told that the solution to poverty is for the poor to “get a job” or for various sectors to create more jobs.…
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