This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the great global policy failure following the 2008 finance-driven crisis was to bail out bankers alone, while leaving people to fend for themselves in the face of subsequent austerity. And Wayne Swan highlights how the continued
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Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Roberts highlights the trillions of dollars in global benefits to transitioning to sustainable energy over the next decade-plus – as well as the political choices keeping us from achieving them. Orville Schell and David Hochschild note that California and China are putting
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson comments on the need for a national anti-poverty strategy which can actually meet its intended purpose: [The new Poverty Reduction Strategy] responds to progressives and anti poverty activists who have long called for a federal government led, broadly based initiative
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Over at the Research Blog of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of a study on which I’m co-author. It essentially asks the question: “When homeless people are placed into subsidized housing with social work support, for how many months/years do they require that social work
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew MacLeod offers a reminder that income is often the most important factor in ensuring a person’s health – even if it’s seldom treated that way as a matter of policy. Marilisa Racco reports on Canada’s unconscionably high rates of child poverty, mortality
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jagmeet Singh observes that much of the festering hate stoked by right-wing parties can be traced back to economic injustice and insecurity: (I)f we really want to stop hate, we need to do more than just call it out. We need to recognize
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Duncan Cameron writes that the Libs’ anti-poverty “strategy” really isn’t about much more than spin. And Katherine Scott asks when we’ll see something which actually reduces poverty rather than merely taking one more step in measuring it. – Bill Curry points out
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Here, on how the Libs’ national poverty reduction strategy manages to aim low yet still set us up for failure on its own terms. For further reading…– CTV interviews Trish Garner about what’s missing from the Libs’ plan. Community Food Centres Canada discusses the danger that a vague and unfunded
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Wren-Lewis discusses how media negligence allowed austerian economics to be treated as credible long after any pretense of academic merit has been debunked. – Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle examine the relationship between income and life expectancy in Canada – featuring
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson and Fernando Rios-Avila study the economic well-being of U.S. households, and find a stagnant standard of living including a falling base income for the median family. Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer confirm that in the past few decades, workers
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Taylor argues that it’s long past time for our leaders to take poverty and food insecurity seriously: While nonprofits do incredible work, I can’t think of many that can truly claim to be reducing poverty. Why? Because, while non-profit organizations, such as
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Assorted content to end your week. – A new IMF working paper confirms the connection between employment deregulation and workers’ share of income. And Jennefer Laidley points out the all-too-imminent danger that the Ontario PCs are about to undo what little belated progress had been made in making social assistance
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Here, on the need for Canada to give effect to a right to housing in both law and policy – and the Libs’ continued reticence in doing so. For further reading…– The open letter from the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness and other groups and individuals calling for a right
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Colby Smith writes about the changing role of public stock markets, which are serving primarily to allow already-wealth investors to cash out rather than to fund the growth of expanding businesses. And the Equality Trust examines the growing gap between the CEO class
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Assorted content to end your week. – David Moscrop makes the case for a long-overdue inheritance tax in Canada: Over time, if left unchecked, capitalism facilitates the pooling of wealth — cash, property, business ownership, investments — among a select few. This is as true in Canada as anywhere else.
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frank Rich writes that the lack of a meaningful response to the 2008 financial crisis has understandably undermined public confidence in the U.S.’ future: Everything in the country is broken. Not just Washington, which failed to prevent the financial catastrophe and has done
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Peter Gowan discusses UK Labour’s push for greater social control over economic development. And Rainer Kattel, Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Ryan-Collins and Simon Sharpe set out a useful framework to evaluate policies which are intended to shape markets rather than merely attempting to fix
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Vanmala Subramaniam reports on the move by real estate developers to push tenants out of desperately-needed housing in Canada’s largest cities to chase after short-term profits. – David Wallace Wells asks how the rapidly-materializing worst-case climate change scenarios are being met with
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Paul Krugman highlights how work requirements and other barriers to social benefits serve only to needlessly increase poverty without improving employment rates. And Patricia Cohen writes about the growing gap between soaring profits and eroding wage gains in the U.S., while Irina Ivanova
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Santens writes about the flaw in markets which fail to distinguish between goods and services which lack value, and those which people lack the money to acquire through the market. – Lisa Cox reports on new research suggesting that the harm
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