Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Yalnizyan, Armine
Publisher: Centre for Social Justice, Toronto, Canada
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 64pp ISBN: 0-9684032-3-9
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX9025
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter One:
The Slippery Slope of Market Values
Wealth versus Incomes
The Human Cost of the Slippery Slope: Dateline Halifax, 1998
The Growing Gap and Economic Growth
Chapter Two:
The Slippery Slope of Political Choice
How We Got Here: The Tax Cut Debate
The Human Cost of the Slippery Slope: Dateline Edmonton, 1999
Chapter Three:
The Provinces: Markets versus Political Choice
The Human Cost of the Slippery Slope: Dateline Regina, 1999
Chapter Four:
What We Have Learned
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