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Economic Inequality
Life-Chance Guarantees
A new agenda for social policy
Author: Brigitte Kitchen
ISBN: 0-9733292-4-6
Price: $5.00
File Size: 2 MB
From Poverty Wages to a Living Wage
Author: Christopher Schenk
ISBN: 0-9688539-7-8
Price: $5.00
File Size: 765 KB
This paper examines the history of and reasoning behind a living wage. It profiles minimum wage workers of today and explains why and how governments should implement a living wage policy.
Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Author: Armine Yalnizyan
ISBN: 0-9684032-3-9
Price: $5.00
File Size: 714 KB
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada’s growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income families sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
Gimme Shelter
Homelessness and Canada's Social Housing Crisis
Author: Nick Falvo
ISBN: 0-9733292-0-3
Price: $5.00
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This paper looks at homelessness as well as some of its social costs. Also considered are some of the political and economic causes that underlie homelessness, and how drastic reductions in the creation of social housing units since the early 1990's, and the significant changes made to income-support programs across Canada, have led to the current crisis in homelessness.
Growing Gap Report
A report on growing inequality between the rich and poor in Canada
Author: Armine Yalnizyan
ISBN: 0-9684032-1-2
Price: $5.00
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Look around the world, and you will see example after example of nations conductimg a risky social experiment of "letting the market rule." However, not all societies have succumbed to these pressures- some resist having market principles determine their quality of life.
This document examines the way "letting the market rule" is destablizing Canadian society.
Canada's Creeping Economic Apartheid
The economic segregation and social marginalisation of racialised groups
Author: Grace-Edward Galabuzi
ISBN: 0-9688539-2-7
Price: $10.00
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The report challenges some common myths about the economic performance of Canada's racialized communities, myths used to deflect public conern and to mask the growing social crisis. It points to the historical patterns of systemic racial discrimination as key to understanding the persistent overrepresentation of racialised groups in low paying occupations and low income sectors, their higher unemployment, and their poverty and social marginalization.
Financial Meltdown
Canada, The Economic Crisis and Political Struggle
Author: Socialist Project and The Centre for Social Justice
ISBN: N/A
Price: $0.00
File Size: 957 kb
A new publication by The Socialist Project and The Centre for Social Justice explores the roots of the current financial crisis, proposing equitable alternatives for Canada and beyond. With contributions by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Greg Albo, David McNally, John Clarke and more.