Inequality and poverty

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Imagine a tax cut that you only get when you buy stuff. The more you spend, the more you get from the tax cut. Skill testing question: who would benefit more from this tax cut, the poor or the rich? Well, the rich buy more stuff than the poor. So affluent people will get more cash from this tax cut then low income people will. You now understand what is wrong with the Conservatives' plan to cut the GST.
OTTAWA—A new analysis finds that high-income families will receive a disproportionate share of the benefits from the Conservatives’ tax-cut promises. According to Standing Up For Which Families? Who Benefits From the Conservative Tax Cut Promises, by Sheila Block and Ellen Russell, the 5.4% of families earning over $150,000 a year will receive 27.9% of the benefits from the Conservatives’ tax cuts modelled in the report—an average of over $2,010.
(Vancouver) A major study released today finds that BC’s welfare system is systematically discouraging, delaying and denying assistance to many of the people most in need of help, with harmful consequences for some of the province’s most vulnerable residents.
HALIFAX: Low income households are still vulnerable to increased energy costs according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). "Our winters of discontent: Addressing the problem of rising home heating costs”, examines the Nova Scotia government's “Keep the Heat” program, and the proposal to remove the HST from home heating fuel.
(Vancouver) The province must invest in education programs for low-income adults with upgrading needs if it wants achieve its goal of making BC the best-educated and most literate jurisdiction in North America. Shauna Butterwick, an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at UBC, is the author of “A Path out of Poverty: Helping Low-Income Adults Upgrade Their Education,” released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The study calls on the provincial government to: