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Inequality: Good, Bad and Benign
Poverty and inequality are often treated interchangeably in public debate but in fact are quite different things. Rising poverty generally has not been the source of the recent rise in inequality… the rich may have been getting richer, and the super-rich super-richer, but in most places the poor have not been getting poorer. Despite the widespread uplift, however, acute misery is hardly unknown in our societies. But its source is not growth at the top of the income distribution but deprivation and desperation at the bottom.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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The inequality trap
Inequality is also a trap — not a trap anyone has set for us but one of our own making — because concern with it leads us to focus on the top end of the income distribution when our preoccupation should instead be the bottom, where the bulk of human misery almost certainly resides.
Tags: featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Whacking the top one per cent with a tax hike not the bonanza Liberals hype
The notion that what fairness demanded most of all was a tax cut for the middle class — as opposed to a tax cut for the lowest class — was always a bit of a stretch. Had the Liberals cut the 15 per cent bottom rate, of course, they could have done both, since the cut would benefit not only those in the bottom bracket but also those above it. But since the point of the exercise was to bribe the middle, they were not about to waste precious dollars on the poor.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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Canada will implement UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Carolyn Bennett says
The Crown already has a constitutionally protected “duty to consult” with aboriginal peoples on issues that might affect their interests, but the UN declaration goes much further and calls on governments to obtain “free, prior and informed consent,” including when it comes to natural resources development… “We are committed to sitting down early, at the earliest possible moment, on every single thing that will affect indigenous people in Canada…”
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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Are boomers really blocking the careers of the generation behind them?
… participation and employment rates for workers age 35 to 50 – roughly what we would call Gen X, the generation supposedly left to pick up whatever economic and career crumbs the boomers happened to drop – have held relatively steady for more than a decade. And far from having been pushed aside by the boomers, this group actually has much higher participation and employment levels than the boomers did at the same age
Tags: economy, featured, participation, youth
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Conservatives need an honest post-mortem
… former cabinet minister Jason Kenney has told anyone who will listen: “We got the big things right. We got the tone wrong.”… If Kenney intends to seek his party’s top job by putting a friendlier face on Harper’s policies, he will have to explain… What the Tories got right about the economy… job creation… immigration… regional development… political accountability… their relationship with First Nations, Métis and Inuit… [and/or] advancing Canadian values on the world stage
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Ontario’s new rules on carding are a welcome reform
… the proposed changes should strengthen Ontario’s police services by boosting public trust and inspiring fresh confidence that those who serve and protect are carrying out their task in an unprejudiced manner. There’s no doubt public faith in police fairness has been severely undercut by the discredited practice of carding, or street checks… The draft regulation would “expressly prohibit the random and arbitrary collection of identifying information by police,” and it forbids collection based on race.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Province sets strict new limits on police street checks
Police officers will no longer be able to arbitrarily stop people for questioning based on their appearance or the neighbourhood they live in, Ontario’s minister of community safety and correctional services said Wednesday. Yasir Naqvi said police officers will also have to tell citizens that the stop is voluntary and that the person can walk away. The officers will be required to provide a reason for stop, as well as documentation and information about complaint mechanism.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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The causes of income inequality
In an open society, rewards are set… by impersonal market forces, the rewards of which will differ dramatically… Beyond [that] the entitlement state exists primarily to transfer wealth regressively, from the working-age population to the retired elderly… big, regulatory government inherently exacerbates inequality because it inevitably serves the strong — those sufficiently educated, affluent, articulate and confident to influence the administrative state’s myriad redistributive actions.
Tags: economy, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Strong middle class vs. equitable society
What is missing? 1. A national early learning plan. A child’s life chances are largely determined by the age of five… 2. A national income floor. Wages and welfare levels have fallen below the poverty line… 3. A toolbox to curb corporate excesses… closing tax loopholes, cancelling subsidies, hiking government fees and letting lucrative contracts lapse… 4. A clear commitment to low-income Canadians that they will not be left behind.
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