If anybody should be able to recognize a good idea when they see one it’s high technology entrepreneurs and managers.
Why the tech elite is getting behind universal basic income
vice.com
Tag Archives: income
(691) Canada’s golden CEOs [CCPA report]
Pay for top executives in Canada has gone up something like 25% since 2008. Another way to understand this is that the average pay of the top 100 passed the average pay of the rest of us for 2015 today, as in BEFORE LUNCH! The report is from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.Glory days: CEO pay in Canada soaring to pre-recession highs
20-page .pdf file
(687) It’s pretty basic
Look, is there some part of this we don’t understand?
Minimum income: what you should know bout the idea that could revolutionize the 21st century
huffingtonpost.ca
(685) Basic income video
Basic income explained with proper enthusiasm (and continuous hand gestures) for the American context, including cartoons. Sweet!
(682) Income survey
Canadians in low income number about five million. Such is the finding of the new income survey from Statistics Canada. Among other findings is that single people continue to emerge as prone to poverty.
Nearly five million Canadians in low-income status, 2012 research shows
globeandmail.com
(678) Canadian inequality
Canadians are almost completely clueless, albeit in an aspirationaly positive way, about the level of inequality in their country.
(675) Nothing secedes like the successful
A 2012 item about the way the super rich have left their fellow Americans in the ditch.
Revolt of the rich. Our financial elites are the new secessionists
theamericanconservative.com
(665) Chicago’s income
Not much is sweet about the donut mentioned in this blog posting, unless you are in the fortunate middle part. Greater Toronto residents will recognize many things in Chicago’s poverty pastry.
Chicago’s growing income donut
danielkayhertz.com/
(626) Stagnant incomes
Here’s ready-to-use ammunition for your next firefight with a neoconservative. So much for recovery: incomes in Canada and the United States are not going anywhere.
image: District of Columbia Society for the Prevention of Blindness poster via NARA/Wikimedia Commons
(623) Conference Board report on younger workers
So, for how much longer will this have little or no political impact on Canada?Younger workers poorer than parents’ generation, research says. Conference Board of Canada says 25- to 29-year-olds make 64% less than 50- to 54-year-olds
cbc.ca
image: Petteri Sulonen via Wikimedia/Flickr
cbc.ca
image: Petteri Sulonen via Wikimedia/Flickr