Income Inequality

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Inequality, The Profit System and Global Crisis

From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts

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Introduction

From: The Case for Basic Income

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In the book’s introduction, the authors suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the failure of free-market fundamentalism. They believe that livable basic income would enhance freedom … ; ; 13 $1.30 Add
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A Good Idea Goes Viral

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This chapter highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on low-wage "essential" workers, racialized populations, and women; the pandemic revealed that many Canadians suffer from … ; ; 30 $3.00 Add
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Canadian Experiments with Basic Income

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results. 23 $2.30 Add
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From Deregulation to Crisis

From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts

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Unionization Rate, Work Stoppages and Declining Wages

From: If You're In My Way, I'm Walking

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What’s Been Happening to Canada’s Middle Class?

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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Historically, Canada’s middle class has expected increasing prosperity from one generation to the next. Real hourly wages did grow strongly until 1981, when inflation control became the … 29 $2.90 Add
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A Brief History of Basic Income in Canada

From: The Case for Basic Income

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In this chapter, various basic income schemes in Canada are detailed, from William Aberhart’s Social Credit Party to the famous "Mincome" project in Dauphin, Manitoba. The chapter … ; ; 35 $3.50 Add
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Basic Income and Population Health

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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This chapter looks at how basic income policies can be beneficial to the overall mental and physical health of communities. 15 $1.50 Add
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Financial Dimensions

Origins and State Responses

From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts

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Inequality at the Top

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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The income share of Canada’s top earners has risen sharply since the 1980s, as balanced growth has been replaced by accelerated income growth for the top 1%, and relative income stagnancy … 30 $3.00 Add
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The Unprotected Worker and the Low-Wage Sphere

From: If You're In My Way, I'm Walking

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Basic Income Comes to Ontario – But Briefly

From: The Case for Basic Income

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This chapter covers the short-lived basic income project in Ontario, from it’s inception to its cancellation by the newly-elected Ford government. ; ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Canada and the Crisis

From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts

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Inequality from the Bottom Up

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Future of Work

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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This chapter looks at our relationship with work as individuals and as a society and how basic income will fundamentally change that relationship. 16 $1.60 Add