Poverty, Inequality and their Impacts

Below are documents and links concerning the growing income gap, and the affects of inequality and cost of poverty on health, economy, crime, and community.

An Overview of Growing Income Inequalities in OECD Countries: Main Findings – OECD 2011

Conference Board of Canada Income Inequality Index – 2011

Communities Respond (Summary Report), Poverty Free Saskatchewan – 2012

Falling Behind: Ontario’s Backslide into Widening Inequality, Growing Poverty and Cuts to Social Programs – Ontario Common Front, August 2012

Poverty Trends Score Card – Canada 2012 – Citizen’s for Public Justice 2012

Report on the State of Public Health in Canada: Addressing Health Inequalities – 2008, the Chief Public Health Officer

Shelagh Day and Gwen Brodsky, Women and the Equality Deficit: The Impact of Restructuring Canada’s Social Programs, Status of Women Canada, 1998

Social Determinants of Health: the Canadian Facts – by Dennis Raphael and Juha Mikkonen

The Cost of Poverty in BC – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC, 2011

The Cost of Poverty in New Brunswick (French) – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives NS, 2010

The Cost of Poverty in Ontario – the Ontario Association of Food Banks – 2008

The Cost of Poverty in Prince Edward Island – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011

The Dollars and Sense of Solving Poverty – The National Council of Welfare, 2011

The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1% – Armine Yalnizyan, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Who’s Getting Richer and Who’s Getting Poorer (1976-2006)French Version – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and IRIS

You Oughta Know: Canada’s Income Gap, the Richest 20% vs the Poorest 20% – slideshow by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

 

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