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B.C. only province in Canada without poverty reduction plan

February 16, 2017
| Low welfare rates, minimal childcare support and skyrocketing rents mean B.C. has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada. The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition is organizing a week of action.
Length: 14:21 minutes (13.14 MB)
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Raoul Peck on class economics, new film 'I Am Not Your Negro' and white privilege

September 19, 2016
| Raoul and I talk about white privilege, consumerism and class economics, apathy and ignorance and how most issues are not about guilt, but about "knowing."
Length: 33:12 minutes (22.8 MB)
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'An Insignificant Man' with Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla

September 16, 2016
| We talk about "An Insignificant Man," about politics and activism and why India is a "very ambitious project." We touch on inequality, hope and social change
Length: 24:48 minutes (17.03 MB)
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With a world in peril, where do our charitable donations have the most clout?
By
Gerry Caplan
| August 24, 2016

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For those of you who already think the world is going to hell in a handbasket these days, I have lamentable news: You don't know the half of it. As Danny Glenwright, dynamic executive director of Action Against Hunger Canada (ACF, for the French name), informed his supporters the other day:

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Working poverty in Metro Vancouver
July 5, 2016 |
We are often told that the solution to poverty is for the poor to “get a job” or for various sectors to create more jobs. But this CCPA study finds that a job is not a guaranteed path out of poverty.
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poverty ccpa inequality working poor working poverty
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When the top fifth of Canadians are worth 1,250 times the lower fifth, it's time for a wealth tax
By
Carter Vance
| March 14, 2016

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When not denying the problem exists at all, its apologists tend to state that inequality is the result of overall market forces which the government has little control over.

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It's expensive to be a woman
By
Cheryl MacIsaac
| March 10, 2016

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The great thing about International Women's Day is indeed the opportunity to discuss how to make women's lives better. When it comes to the economics of being a woman, we really do need to consider this dual injustice: Women earn less than men, but are expected to spend more. 

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A federal plan to tackle poverty and inequality
February 18, 2016 |
The fight to eliminate poverty and inequality is far from over and Justin Trudeau's election proposals are inadequate to accomplishing the task. This CCPA paper is a real poverty reduction plan.
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Government penny pinching to blame for lead in Flint, Michigan water

February 13, 2016
| In 2014 a state-appointed manager switched the city water supply from the Detroit system to the Flint River in a cost-saving measure. Thousands of Flint residents suffered lead poisoning as a result.
Length: 16:37 minutes (15.22 MB)
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More of the world's wealth is owned by fewer people -- and our share of the rest of it is collapsing
By
John McMurtry
| January 28, 2016

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The just-released Oxfam Davos Report shows that 62 individuals -- 388 in 2010 -- now own more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. More shockingly, it reports from its uncontested public sources that this share of wealth by half of the world's people has collapsed by over 40 per cent in just the last five years.

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