Share the Wealth!How we can tax Canada’s super-rich and create a better country for everyoneBy Jonathan Gauvin, By Angella MacEwenThis book shows how Canada’s steadily increasing wealth — which has mostly gone to the top one per cent over the last 20 years — can be successfully taxed to pay for the social programs Canadians need and want, from pharmacare and child care to better care for the elderly to much lower costs for post-secondary students. |
Homelessness can be ended in Canada, and in this book leading shelter operators share their experience and their proposals about how this can be done, city by city. |
A distinguished economist breaks the silence and explains why most Canadians are stuck — while a few grow rapidly more wealthy |
Early InterventionHow Canada's social programs can work better, save lives, and often save moneyBy James HughesHomelessness, poverty, child abuse, mental illness, bullying, dementia, autism -- the evidence that early intervention improves lives, and often costs society less in the long run. |
Richer and Poorer is an acute and detailed analysis of the disparities of wealth and poverty as experienced in 1990s Canada.
EBook / EPUB Out of print
9781552778890 | Published: March 2011 |
The Fact Book on Poverty clearly indicates certain groups in our society are especially vulnerable to poverty.
Paperback Out of print
9780888626196 | Published: January 1983 |
The Fact Book on Poverty clearly indicates certain groups in our society are especially vulnerable to poverty. |
Published in 1975, this pamphlet looks at facts and figures regarding poverty in Canada. |