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Taxing the rich is good for the economy IMF says
… comparing pre- and post-tax data from a large number of countries, the authors say there is convincing evidence that lower net inequality is good economics, boosting growth and leading to longer-lasting periods of expansion. In the most controversial finding, the study concludes that redistributing wealth, largely through taxation, does not significantly impact growth unless the intervention is extreme.
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A splitting tax headache
The unfairness in question is for “traditional” couples, i.e., in which one partner works only part-time or not at all so that the family’s whole income is mainly earned by the working partner, who likely faces a higher marginal rate and therefore pays more tax than if the identical income were split evenly between partners… Feminists respond to this unfairness argument with “Unfair yourself!”
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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Harper finally gets it right on aboriginal education
The name of the new bill, “First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act,” signalled Ottawa’s acceptance that First Nations have authority over the education of their children… It came with a specific financial commitment… It empowered First Nations to incorporate their languages and culture into the curriculum… [but] The core funding… won’t flow until 2016-17.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Family income splitting: A costly perk for the rich?
Such a move would be costly in terms of lost government revenues, will increase rather than diminish family income inequality, and is bad social policy… 86 per cent of families would get no benefit at all, and that 60 per cent of the benefits would go to the richest 5 per cent of families… family income splitting would cost about $3-billion a year in forgone federal government revenues, and about $2-billion more if the provinces followed suit.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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The Populist Imperative
“The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.” John Maynard Keynes wrote that in 1936, but it applies to our own time… soaring inequality helped set the stage for our economic crisis, and… the highly unequal distribution of income since the crisis has perpetuated the slump… high unemployment… has become a major source of rising inequality and stagnating incomes
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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More money won’t solve aboriginal woes
Canadians have financed growth in the aboriginal welfare state at a pace that eclipsed even the growth of the Canadian welfare state — and unfortunately with little improvement in the well-being of aboriginal Canadians to show for it. That makes it critical to track existing spending and to offer up policy reforms for federal and provincial governments. That is vastly preferable to the tried-and-failed approach of simply throwing more money at failed aboriginal polices.
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Time for a human-rights reboot
There is still no commitment to respecting the right of indigenous peoples to give free, prior and informed consent to natural resource projects impacting on their rights, lands and territories. The federal government’s refusal to fund health care equally for all refugees has been lambasted by provincial governments… The federal government’s refusal to lead the development of national strategies for poverty, food security and homelessness defies understanding.
Tags: globalization, ideology, multiculturalism, rights
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Tories shrug off income equality
It is a pathetic piece of work… It says nothing about lifting low-income Canadians out of poverty, nothing about tackling the desperate shortage of affordable housing in the country, nothing about increasing the Canada Child Tax Benefit, nothing about improving public pensions and nothing about shoring up the country’s deteriorating social programs… It took the Tories 18 months to push one of the important issues facing the nation off the political agenda.
Tags: economy, housing, ideology, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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How to stay ahead of the Gatsby curve
Children from advantaged families are more likely to be relatively advantaged as adults, and their poorer counterparts also more likely to stay poor… In Canada, parents can expect to pass on between a fifth and a quarter of their advantage. Canada’s relative equality is due, in part, to the ability of low-income children to receive reasonably high-quality education and health care. However, there are reasons to be concerned that Canadian intergenerational mobility has been falling.
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development
The 13 years since the millennium have seen the fastest reduction in poverty in human history… But… fell short by not integrating the economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainable development as envisaged in the Millennium Declaration, and by not addressing the need to promote sustainable patterns of consumption and production… environment and development were never properly brought together… inequality remains and opportunity is not open to all.
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