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Ontario has greatest rise in rich-poor gap in Canada: report
Saturday, September 1st, 2012
Aug. 29 2012
The report by the Ontario Common Front puts the province at the bottom of the pack when it comes to funding and access to public programs and services ranging from health care to education and justice to disability benefits… The report says the austerity budget brought in this year by Premier Dalton McGuinty to fight a $15-billion deficit will worsen the province’s record in spite of the Liberal government’s promise to eliminate poverty… Over the last generation, from 1981 to 2010, Ontario experienced the largest change in income inequality of any province in Canada, the report says. During the same period, it says Ontario had the country’s second highest increase in the poverty rate.
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