Reading Time: 4 minutes U.S. households not only live with higher income inequality than in Canada but more than half are worse off in terms of purchasing power
Author: Michael Wolfson
Dr. Wolfson’s areas of expertise include program review and evaluation, tax/transfer policy, pension policy, income distribution, design of health information systems, microsimulation modeling of socio-economic policy and health dynamics, and analysis of the determinants of health.
We need a new kind of weather forecast
Reading Time: 3 minutes More regular reporting on extreme weather patterns would help Canadians understand the real threat of climate change
Recognizing the many faces of poverty in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes To have effective policies, we need clear, understandable indicators for the most important dimensions of poverty
Canada needs an official poverty line
Reading Time: 3 minutes Having a clearly-defined poverty line enables a government to set targets and focus its policy agenda on effective change
Is it time for major tax reform in Canada?
Reading Time: 4 minutes It would be more prudent to make ongoing in-depth analysis of various facets of the tax system a full-time activity of the Department of Finance
The loudest voices against tax reform are not neutral
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost absent in the debate about proposed Canadian changes are any voices defending the idea of tax fairness
The sky is falling on small business – or is it?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Proposed tax changes actually bring more fairness to the system, helping to close loopholes and eliminate back-door strategies to hide income
Guarding against income inequality in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Does Canada need to worry about the same festering malaise that has disrupted the United States?
People need less money to live as they get older? Not!
Reading Time: 3 minutes What we really need is an evidence-based public conversation about the consumption and income needs of Canadian seniors
Do Canadians pay too much in taxes?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here’s why that’s the wrong question to ask