Menu
Growing Gap
The story of the rich and the rest of us
The CCPA’s Growing Gap project takes an in-depth and sustained look at one of the biggest challenges of our time: Worsening income and wealth inequality in Canada. Our team of economists and researchers have been tracking household income, wealth, spending and credit data, unearthing a troubling phenomenon.
Our publications are available to all at no cost. Please support the CCPA and help make important research and ideas available to everyone. Make a donation today.
-
Toronto-Centre: Ground Zero for Canada’s Income Inequality Debate
For the first time in Canadian history, an election is being waged on this question: Which political candidate do you trust to reduce income inequality?…
-
The Gap Between the Rich and the Rest of Us? We Can Close It.
Two candidates in an upcoming federal by-election have made income inequality the main topic in Toronto-Centre. The CCPA’s growing gap team created a short primer…
-
Middle class for sale
A leaked Ontario Progressive Conservative document reveals a deep disconnect between ideologically driven wedge politics and the realpolitik of Ontario’s struggling middle class. The document lays out…
-
Trickle-down would work if it weren’t for the sponges at the top
This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. Five years after a global economic crisis unleashed chaos on markets everywhere, income inequality has…
-
Infographic: From Bad to Worse: Child Poverty Rates in Canada
From bad to worse: our infographic reveals Indigenous and non-Indigenous child poverty rates across Canada, based on our study Poverty or Prosperity: Indigenous children in…
-
40% of Indigenous children in Canada live in poverty: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. OTTAWA—Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children,…
-
40 % des enfants autochtones du Canada vivent dans la pauvreté, selon une étude
lire l’etude ici. OTTAWA – Les enfants autochtones du Canada sont deux fois et demie plus susceptibles de vivre dans la pauvreté que les enfants non…
-
Poverty or Prosperity
Download 1.09 MB44 pages
-
Study of Income Inequality in Canada—What Can Be Done
Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Download 181.7 KB8 pages On April 30, 2013, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among…
-
Gender gap leaves Canadian women “leaning in” for the next 228 years: study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Without a change in public policy, Canada’s gender gap won’t go away anytime soon, says a new study…
-
Closing Canada’s Gender Gap
Year 2240 Here We Come! Download 301.74 KB10 pages This study looks at Canada’s progress in closing the gap between men and women over the…
-
Infographic: How to close the gender pay gap?
The report, 10 Ways To Close Ontario’s Gender Pay Gap, finds that women in Ontario still earn 28 per cent less than men – despite increased…
Updates from the CCPA
Read the latest research, analysis and commentary on issues that matter to you.
CCPA Updates