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.
Growing Gap
- When it comes to growing income inequality and a squeezed middle class, it's often said that Canada has it better than the US. That doesn't mean we aren't faced by troubling trends here. Whose job is...December 4, 2014 | National OfficeIs Ontario's middle class among the richest in the world, as the New York Times would have us believe, or is it struggling to stay afloat, as per the rhetoric of many a provincial politician? Steve...May 22, 2014 | Ontario OfficeApril 16, 2014 marks Equal Pay Day in Ontario. It falls on this day because a woman, on average, would have to work all last year, plus all working days up until April 16 of the current year just...April 16, 2014 | Ontario Office
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The Minimum Wage and the Impact on Jobs in Canada, 1983–2012
September 8, 2014 | Ontario OfficeSettling the Debate
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By 1:11pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs have already pocketed $46,634 — what it takes the average Canadian an entire year, working full-time, to earn. Check out our live counter and find out how much a CEO and an "Average Joe" have earned so far this year.
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This examination of income trends over the past 90 years documents the rise of Canada's richest 1% and reveals that incomes are as concentrated in the hands of the richest 1% today as they were in the Roaring Twenties.