When income tax cuts leave you worse off
The real fiscal choice in the election is between tax cuts which deliver small benefits to many, or ambitious investments in public services which deliver a much bigger and fairer bang for the fiscal buck.
Empowering Workers
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A Green New Deal, trade and investment deals, and Canadian jobs
A Green New Deal in Canada will be a much more powerful tool for good job creation if twinned to an industrial strategy. But this will require a government prepared to push the limits and challenge the current rules of the game.
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A data look at Millennials and growing inequality
Without policy interventions that are based on data and a solid understanding of the issues that need to be addressed, inequality will continue to grow as millennials age — impacting future generations and their economic outcomes.
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Workers must be at the centre of shaping Canada’s ‘Green New Deal’
Green New Deal architects need to bring together the political coalition they need to be the change they want.
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What we can learn from the Oshawa General Motors announcement
Canadians—and people of all nations—must ask themselves at what point does the concentration of economic power threaten, not just a couple thousand jobs in Oshawa, but the very basis of our sovereignty and democracy?
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Capitalism’s continued crisis
The global economy has to be seen, not so much as a set of discrete national economies trading with each other, but as a vast “macro financial” web of corporate balance sheets and financial flows.
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Canada needs to learn from U.S. Federal Reserve’s mistakes
The next financial crisis is coming, sooner more likely than later. And Canada has no reason to be complacent, given its own vulnerabilities.
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Poverty strategy requires more resources and more ambitious goals
We should be very careful to recognize that poverty has many dimensions that can only be understood through multiple indicators, and that political commitments must extend to resources and not just targets.
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Talk of “the end of jobs” hides real labour market issues
The problem with the “end of jobs” narrative is that it disarms us by suggesting that massive technological forces out of our control are most to blame for our problems. That is not the case.
