Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Scott Vrooman rightly makes the point that increased wealth at the top tends to splash outside a country's borders rather than trickling down.…
inequality
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Robert Frank discusses the essential role of luck in determining the opportunities we have - and how the advantages of a strong social fabric…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Lana Payne writes about the need for a Bernie Sanders in Canada to highlight and oppose the privilege of the wealthy few:It is in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- The Star makes the case for a new crackdown on Canadian tax cheats to not only merely recover money withheld, but also to…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Jason Hinkel writes that for as much attention as global inequality has received in recent years, it may be significantly more of a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- In the wake of the Panama Papers, Don Pittis writes that tax shelters serve only to ensure that the wealthy don't pay their fair…
Jonathan Kay advises the left
Jonathan Kay knows what’s hurting the poor. Is it absurdly low welfare rates and social supports? Perhaps it is lack of access to affordable housing? Poverty wages? Food insecurity? Over-policing?…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- GOOD Magazine neatly sums up what the world would look like on the scale of 100 people - and how patently unfair wealth inequality…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Nick Bunker points out that there's much more to an economic recovery than nominal GDP - with labour's share of growth serving as…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Martin Regg Cohn exposes the Ontario Libs' pay-to-play governing strategy, as cabinet ministers have been instructed to use their roles and access to…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Christopher May writes that any full examination of political dynamics needs to take into account corporations as sources of power, not merely economic actors:(R)ecognising…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Susan Delacourt writes that the Libs' federal budget is best seen as requiring an overriding "to be continued". And Don Martin flags a few…
What Bernie Sanders Has Accomplished
Here is an op ed in the Star on what we might learn from the Bernie Sanders camPaign
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David MacDonald argues that the federal budget should focus on desperately-needed public investments - with any revenue issues dealt with by raising taxes…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Nicholas Kristof points out how important a stable and effective public service looks from the standpoint of a country which doesn't benefit from…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Harry Leslie Smith writes about the problems with a U.K. budget and economic plan designed to avoid any moral compass:Nothing better illustrates to me…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Jared Bernstein is hopeful that the era of expansive corporate rights agreements is coming to an end. Paul Krugman notes that there's no evidence…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tim Harford discusses John Maynard Keynes' failed prediction that workers would continue to win increased leisure time over the past few decades:(I)t is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Elise Gould studies the continued rise of wage inequality in the U.S. And Teuila Fuatai points out how a strong movement to improve minimum…
In Canada and around the world, “women are unpaid, undervalued and unequal”: Report
A new report says women now play defining roles in the the global economy but still receive "unequal benefits." The report was co-published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives…