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Canadians seek leadership on inequality
The middle class started losing ground in the 1980s. But most Canadians didn’t realize it… They believed they lived in a nation in which people cared and shared. They regarded Canada’s strong, resilient middle class as its political and economic backbone. Now the trouble signals are too obvious to ignore. Middle class families are struggling financially. The social programs that used to mitigate the disparities in market income… have been sacrificed to budget balancing.
Tags: budget, child care, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Precarious employment a full-blown crisis
Sooner or later workers need to be paid a living wage… Workers need to have more options around buying benefits… Ontario’s Employment Standards Act needs to be updated to reflect this new reality… more than half the workers in the GTHA alone work in precarious employment positions. The Act is silent on fair scheduling. It doesn’t deal with paid emergency leave and excludes more than one million people who work for small companies and don’t have the right to even a single paid sick day.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Tories have ‘no plans’ to match poverty aid vow inside Canada: memo
“Unlike most of our traditional like-minded countries, Canada has no plans to apply the Post-2015 Agenda domestically, or to take on new reporting obligations beyond what we are currently producing,” … The memo adds that “there will be international and domestic pressure to commit to domestic action and to report on the targets.” But it says Canada already has a variety of programs at different levels of government, “which aligns well with many of the proposed goals and targets.”
Tags: budget, globalization, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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Government spending can’t solve Canada’s demographic problems
If Canada’s retirees cannot make a reasonable return on their assets… More of them will be dependent on old-age security (OAS) and the guaranteed income supplement (GIS)… inflated asset prices (equities, housing and the like) have especially benefited the wealthy, thus contributing to rising inequality that, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and others, further impedes economic growth.
Tags: economy, pensions, poverty, standard of living
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Addressing inequality will take much more than tax code tinkering
In most countries there has been a move to lower top income tax rates and reduced taxation of corporate profits, as well as cuts to income support programs such as unemployment insurance, welfare and public pensions… If market income inequality is allowed to inexorably rise, one can expect even more resistance by the well off to redistributive policies. This suggests that more must also be done to equalize market incomes.
Tags: economy, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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