The income gap between the rich and the rest keeps growing, in good times and in bad. Learn more about it in this video.
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The idea of a guaranteed income (sometimes referred to as guaranteed annual income or GAI) has a long and respectable history in Canadian political and economic thought. Recently, in the face of both wide criticism of the Canadian income security system and growing recognition of the unacceptability of current poverty rates, there has been a resurgence in calls for implementation of a Canadian guaranteed income. But the idea is a controversial one; progressive activists, academics, and politicians disagree about the desirability and the practicality of a guaranteed income.
TORONTO – One year after the Crash of October 2008, Ontario’s recession is looking eerily like the Great Depression and governments need to do something about that, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Close Encounters of the Thirties Kind, by social policy expert John Stapleton, is a blow-by-blow account of the similarities between Ontario circa 1930s and today.
OTTAWA - Canada's economy is still mired in recession and a long way from recovery, despite months of "green shoot" speculation, says a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Canada's Long Road to Economic Recovery, by Jim Stanford and David Macdonald, examines Canada's economic indicators and concludes more public investment will be key to Canada's recovery.
Memo from the Prime Minister’s Office to Canada’s unemployed: it sucks to be you.
After waiting an entire summer for Harper’s minority government to finally agree to fix Canada’s inadequate Employment Insurance (EI) system – which the government did only when its electoral back was up against the wall – unemployed Canadians are still mostly out of luck.
Canada likes to think of itself as the country that emerged from the financial crisis squeaky clean. Too bad it is abdicating a leadership role in creating a safer financial system going forward.The issue is bonuses paid to top executives in the financial sector. It looks like the Europeans and Americans are pushing for consensus at the upcoming G20 meetings to adopt limitations on these bonuses. But Canada is poised to be the spoiler.
HALIFAX - The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia released its ‘alternative budget’ today. The NS Alternative Budget Working Group, which is comprised of a coalition of academics and community representatives, developed an alternative budget that positions Nova Scotia to achieve greater social and economic equality, create a greener economy, and thus a more sustainable and healthy province.