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Who wants to talk about income inequality?
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Nov. 23, 2011
In Canada, the share concerned about poverty/income inequality was 30 per cent, behind health care (of course) at 47 per cent, unemployment/jobs at 39 per cent and taxes at 37 per cent. That ranking showed an increase in concern about poverty/income inequality, since it now ranks well above crime, immigration, environment and climate change… Well-intentioned philanthropy… cannot do much against these market trends and inadequate government programs to offset those market trends.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, standard of living, tax
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McGuinty vows to improve First Nations schools
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Nov 22 2011
It is time for Ottawa to engage in an “important” conversation about “unleashing” the provincial government to help improve standards, he said. “They are not good at education. They don’t do education, we do education. And there are now international authorities who say we have the best public education system in the English-speaking world.” Ottawa must correct the funding imbalances so native kids receive the same funding as other children in Ontario schools, McGuinty added. “Let us take this on. Let us work with First Nations and develop a curriculum that speaks to their needs and aspirations”…
Tags: Indigenous, rights, standard of living, youth
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Wake up and Listen to Occupiers
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Nov. 21, 2011
… power is entrenched, protected and ruthless, and it will not be denied easily what it has accumulated over the decades… The occupiers have already made history. They have broken the media and elite-imposed taboo on talking about the destructive impact of inequality on the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world in developing and developed countries. The new feudalism that has been emerging for over twenty years is now exposed. Everyone can see the elephant in the room.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, standard of living, youth
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The Occupy movement isn’t going away, it’s going online
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Nov 18 2011
It’s a worldwide movement… And it’s not going away… the current, gross disparity in wealth matches that of gilded ages past. Progressive movements arose in each case to restore balance and a measure of economic fairness… starting with “A revival of crucial public services, especially education, training, public investment and environment protection… Getting in the way of overdue change is a fool’s errand.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Unions are key to fighting inequity
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Nov 16 2011
The assault on the middle class has taken many forms, including tax cuts to the rich, the shredding of valuable public services, and globalization that allowed companies, especially banks, to pillage at will. The attack also included moves by governments to make it more difficult for people to join unions, and to limit the ability of those unions to bargain effectively on behalf of their members… Unions have traditionally contributed to a healthy middle class in a number of ways…
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Ignoring disadvantaged won’t make problems go away
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Nov. 17, 2011
Something is wrong in our society that creates systems in which 60% of people working today live paycheque to paycheque, and personal debt is skyrocketing. Something is wrong in our society that sees the necessity of… printing article after article highlighting the problem of poverty in our area. Something is wrong in our society when we have to have a townwide food drive to ensure people in our midst have enough food. The Occupiers might be in the wrong spot, but they’re pointing to a problem which we too easily ignore because we’re too busy getting to work and paying our bills.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Government spies on advocate for native children
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Nov 15 2011
When does a life-long advocate for aboriginal children become an enemy of the state? The answer, it would seem, is when you file a human rights complaint accusing your government of willfully underfunding child welfare services to First Nations children on reserves. Accusing your government, in other words, of racial discrimination.
Tags: Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living, youth
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The Wrong Inequality
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
October 31, 2011
… two forms of inequality exist in modern America. They are related but different… The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it’s not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It’s not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It’s not nearly as big a problem as the nation’s stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent. If your ultimate goal is to reduce inequality, then you should be furious at the doctors, bankers and C.E.O.’s. If your goal is to expand opportunity, then you have a much bigger and different agenda.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living
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Idealism in a ‘deeply cynical age’
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Nov. 13, 2011
… we have a political system which has fallen into the hands of the corporate lobbies and we have a business elite which violates the law with alarming frequency and a Wall Street financial centre which not only broke the law but helped to create one of the most painful financial disasters in economic history that we’re still living through. That’s why people are upset. They want a restoration of democracy. They want money out of the political system and they want a fairer economy.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Oligarchy, American Style
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
November 3, 2011
… protesters who portray themselves as representing the interests of the 99 percent have it basically right, and the pundits solemnly assuring them that it’s really about education, not the gains of a small elite, have it completely wrong… almost two-thirds of the rising share of the top percentile in income actually went to the top 0.1 percent… rising inequality has meant a nation in which most families don’t share fully in economic growth… extreme concentration of income is incompatible with real democracy… the truth is that the whole nature of our society is at stake.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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