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A new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives indicates that the riches 1% make nearly $180,000 more than what they made in 1982.
Hugh MacKenzie in the Toronto Star: A year after the Occupy movement focused public attention on the income, wealth and opportunity gap between the top 1 per cent and the 99 per cent, the issue is attracting the attention of…
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return” -Gore…
Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cummins in Economy Watch: The latest international data show that unaffordable food, pervasive unemployment, and dwindling social support threaten global recovery and the world’s population. Yet the world remains fixated on austerity and cost-cutting measures to…
Daniel Tencer of the Huffington Post Canada: Just as Canadians are expressing concern about the country’s income gap in seemingly unprecedented numbers, our ability to find out what’s happening with incomes is about to take a serious hit. In announcing…
Canada Without Poverty is celebrating its second annual Tax Benefits Day, The movement for fair and sufficient taxation is growing – witness the recent founding of Canadians for Tax Fairness, Doctors for Fair Taxation and Lawyers for Fair Taxation. And…
Via Yahoo Finance: In his latest book, The Price of Inequality, Columbia Professor and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz examines the causes of income inequality and offers some remedies. In between, he reaches some startling conclusions, including that America is “no…
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 Canadians for Tax Fairness is hosting an event will be held at 496 Birchmount Rd. on The Inequality Crisis and Tax Fairness. The Inequality Crisis and Tax Fairness
A new whitepaper, Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options, published by the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research Network, demonstrates that post-taxes inequality between 1980-1990 increased despite unequal labour market incomes. The Star highlighted the findings of the paper which…