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
