CBC – The spark that lit riots in Britain last week is rooted in the government’s radical alteration of the social contract with its citizens
CFIB – A Comparison of Public-sector and Private-sector Wages
CBC – Half of First Nations children live in poverty
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada’s richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history
Global Footprint Network – The United Nations’ Human Development Index (HDI) which measures a country’s average achievements in the areas of health, knowledge, and standard of living, tells us that an HDI higher than 0.8 is considered high human development
Globe – Half the workforce in precarious employment
Globe – Canadian-born visible minorities earn less
CNN – The wealth gap in the United States has grown wider in the wake of the Great Recession, with black and Hispanic American households faring much worse than white households
CNN – Social scientists have long said income inequality is bad for society. Yet popular measures of social stability — crime rates, voter non-participation — have been going down over the last couple of decades
Vanier Institute – The Health of Families in Canada
Harvard – Fred Solt’s – The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
Globe – Toronto is becoming a city of stark economic extremes as its middle class is hollowed out and replaced by a bipolar city of the rich and poor
Wolfram – Inequality Stats – Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers? not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods
Conference Board of Canada – Is Canada becoming more unequal?
CIBC – Quantity and Quality of Jobs Falling in Tandem
Fred Solt – The Political & Social Consequences of Economic Inequality – Fred Solt
Globe – A majority of Canadian employees are living paycheque to paycheque and report they would be in financial difficulty if their pay were delayed by even a week
Financial Post – Financial Inequality Could be Growing Faster than Figures Suggest