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Harper’s ‘income splitting lite’ is still a bad idea
It will allow couples with children under 18 to transfer up to $50,000 of income to the spouse with the lower income for tax purposes, thereby cutting their overall federal tax bill. The new twist is that the government will cap the benefit at $2,000 a year. That means couples with one high income earner won’t reap the windfall that the original plan would have given them. And it will cost the government less in foregone tax revenue. But income-splitting will still leave most families out. Single parents (accounting for as many as 28 per cent of families, by some estimates) will get nothing…
Tags: budget, child care, economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Why the establishment is worried about inequality
Janet Yellen, head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, created waves in the business and pundit class by suggesting that rising wealth inequality may be incompatible with American values. This was only a few months after Bank of England governor Mark Carney, a Canadian, warned that free-market “fundamentalism” is creating greater inequality in society, and threatening the legitimacy of capitalism itself.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Stacking the odds against First Nations families
First Nations families and communities… need equitable government resources to do more… Ottawa’s current approach is stacking the odds against our children. It’s time for the federal government to fight for, not against, equity and justice for children. It’s time to face the truth. Action starts with fairness and opportunity for every child. And it must start now.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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New book unpacks myth of ‘Black dangerousness’ and racism in Canada
The Dirty War, a new book in the Our Schools/Our Selves series, paints a chilling picture of life experiences and opportunities for young Black men in our current social, cultural, economic and political circumstances. In drawing from these sources, author Charles C. Smith conveys the persistent and intended violence and chaos in the lives of Black peoples.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, economy, multiculturalism, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Inequality Explained
Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Luxembourg Income Study, presents a keynote address to the UN Economic and Financial Committee ( Second Committee) as webcast live at < http://webtv.un.org/search/inequality-and-development-janet-gornick-–-keynote-address-second-committee-2nd-meeting-69th-general-assembly/3826056194001?term=Janet%20Gornick >.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, women, youth
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Why Canada avoids asking about race, and why that’s a problem
Statscan decided to choose between either race or immigration status. (The U.S. and U.K. labour force surveys manage to include both.) An alternative view is that poorer socio-economic outcomes for immigrants are easier to explain away as poorer assimilation rather than as racism. Including both race and immigration status would allow researchers to factor for assimilation effects, and focus on the impact of racial discrimination.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Inequality Is Bad for Business: BC Investment Banker
It is true that we manage inequality better than many other countries, but since when is B.C. satisfied with measuring itself against the worst instead of by our proximity to the best? Working people in the western world have had a tough go in recent decades. Real incomes have remained stagnant, resulting in crippling household debt loads. Globalization has allocated capital and jobs to jurisdictions that offer cheaper fiscal terms and lower-cost labour.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Ontario to tackle gender wage gap
Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn has been ordered to develop a strategy to close the 31.5 per cent wage gap between men and women in the province… According to the latest available data, women earned an average of $33,600 in 2011 while men earned $49,000. Equal pay advocates, who have been calling for a provincial strategy similar to Ontario’s anti-poverty and accessibility plans, are thrilled Wynne has highlighted the issue as a government priority.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living, women
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Our Invisible Rich
… the wealth of the top percent has surged relative to everyone else — rising from 25 percent of total wealth in 1973 to 40 percent now — but… the great bulk of that rise has taken place among the top 0.1 percent, the richest one-thousandth of Americans… Pundits sometimes wonder why American voters don’t care more about inequality; part of the answer is that they don’t realize how extreme it is. And defenders of the superrich take advantage of that ignorance.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Politics is sexist, but not in the ways we’ve been talking about
Current conversations about sexism tend to be far more trivial than structural… This frustratingly narrow focus has drawn attention from the more important and thorny contemporary women’s issues: a persistent wage gap, unenforceable board quotas, choice in reproductive health, provision of affordable child care, and parental-leave benefits… This limited definition of what sexism is speaks volumes about the lack of a satisfying feminist lens for evaluating policy proposals.
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