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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 different estimates of the total number of people who are poor, Canada’s very poorest citizens are those who have to rely on Social Assistance — their incomes were cut sharply in the mid-1990s and have never fully recovered.
Contributors
Lars Osberg
LARS OSBERG is McCulloch Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University with research interests in labour economics and income and wealth distribution. He received his PhD in Economics from Yale University and has published numerous articles in academic journals and seven books. He is past President of the Canadian Economics Association. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
