Halifax- Atlantic Canadians deserve to know how many federal jobs will be cut in their region, their province, and their community. They also deserve to know how these job cuts will affect the delivery of service in their community, as well as how the cuts will affect the broader economy. Unfortunately, the Treasury Board of Canada has yet to release these numbers or this analysis. Instead, today it has chosen to release only the percentage of federal jobs that will still exist in this region by the end of 2015.
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OTTAWA—The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ analysis of new data on Canada’s richest 1% shows how much the income gap has been rising in Canada.
The richest 1% of Canadians make almost $180,000 more today than they did in 1982 (adjusted for inflation). The bottom 90% of Canadians saw income gains of only $1,700.
(Vancouver) A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the earnings of women in BC to those in the rest of Canada. The report was authored by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, an economist and SFU Professor of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Among the key findings:
CANADA ATLANTIQUE – Un nouveau rapport du CCPA-NÉ rendu public aujourd’hui renferme des prévisions concernant les pertes d’emploi au sein du secteur fédéral dans la région de l’Atlantique et l’impact qu’auront ces coupes sur la région. Le CCPA-NÉ publie son rapport intitulé L’impact des suppressions d’emplois au gouvernement fédéral dans les provinces de l’Atlantique alors que la population s’interroge sur les desseins du gouvernement fédéral.
ALANTIC CANADA - A new CCPA-NS report released today makes projections for federal public sector job loss in Atlantic Canada and discusses the breadth and depth of its impact in the region. CCPA-NS publishes Public Disservice: the impact of federal government job cuts in Atlantic Canada at a time when many are questioning a federal austerity agenda that is eliminating jobs, programs and services Canadians need, while refusing to provide the information needed to fully understand the consequences.
Increasingly, leadership for policy change comes from outside of government, not from within.
It’s why many Ontarians who are focused on reducing and eliminating poverty in this province have engaged in a broadening conversation about how to end working poverty through decent jobs, a better minimum wage, and a concept that’s gathering force: a living wage.
Here’s how they relate to one another.
Seth Klein, Director of the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, speaks about his experiences with a living wage policy. Recorded October 11th, 2012 at Ryerson University. Produced by the CCPA Ontario office with support from the Metcalf Foundation.
Watch the presentation below:
This report looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report was written for Ontario's first ever living wage conference, hosted October 11 and 12, 2012 in Toronto by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario office.
In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoes—their work systemically devalued. Governments and employers need to deliver more equitable compensation incomes for vulnerable workers. This paper explores how we can close discriminatory pay gaps, so that this basic human right — the right to work and to earn pay free of discrimination — is realized for Canada’s low-paid workers.
OTTAWA—The ability of Canada’s young workers to find stable, well-paid, and meaningful work is increasingly under threat, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The report, by CCPA research associate Karen Foster, looks at trends in youth employment. The unemployment rate for Canadians aged 15-24 has grown from 12.9% in 2001 to 14.1% in 2011—relatively low compared to other OECD countries.