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economic inequality gini coefficient

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Low university tuition benefits the rich not the poor: book - Report Card - 0 views

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economic inequality university tuition

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  • benefit the rich more than the poor.
  • require them and governments to help students from low-income families with grants, bursaries and loans.
  • most likely to benefit from registered education savings plans
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  • tax transfers to the upper-middle class
  • $400 a year
  • tuition fees as tax deductions
  • denies universities the tuition money that they need
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  • There's no evidence that tax cuts create work
  • For every $1 they make we put $13 into their pensions
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Women expect less money than men when entering workforce, study suggests | Posted | Nat... - 0 views

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women economic inequality

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  • Women leaving university expect smaller paycheques and longer line-ups for promotions than their male counterparts, finds a new Canadian study that suggests the lower expectations are self-perpetuated.
  • women predict their salaries will be 14% lower than what men tend to forecast in their own professional lives
  • 18% less
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  • earn only 68% of the salaries their equally qualified male peers earn
  • found the male students’ expectations are way too high. These results may indicate that women are just more realistic about their salary expectations
  • If these students are asking their mothers or older women for their experiences, they will be getting a reflection of the historical inequality
  • emphasize a balance between a career and a personal life and contributing to society,
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Stop the ridicule: Adrian Dix right on the money - 0 views

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economic inequality

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  • 1929, with the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us widening.
  • bottom 60 per cent
  • 11 per cent drop in their average after-tax incomes
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  • richest 10 percent
  • richest 10 per cent of B.C. families now earn more than the bottom 50 per cent combined
  • 5,065
  • 23,665
  • 18 per cent increase
  • mental illness and drug addiction more common
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With HST makeover, B.C. Premier captures middle ground - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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  • hike corporate taxes to give families and seniors a break.
  • vote for keeping the tax
  • eat the rich
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  • Now, those same B.C. Liberals say raising the corporate income tax rate is an “honest rebalancing” between big business and consumers.
  • she has raised the minimum wage, restored funding cuts to charities, and even jumped on Mr. Dix’s proposal to ban cosmetic pesticides.
  • She speaks for a tiny elite
  • But offering to raise corporate income taxes is not just a populist manoeuvre.
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