income mobility in canada

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Family ‘income mobility’ data—a cup at least half full

More than 60 per cent moved out of the bottom and fewer than 60 per cent stayed at the top.


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Intergenerational income mobility is much higher for children of parents with lower levels of income.


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Most Canadians who experience low income do so for only a short period of time over the course of their lives.


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Thanks to Canada’s high level of economic mobility, people do not stay at a single income level their entire lives.


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The “poor” not only got significantly richer, they got richer faster than the “rich.”


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The recent federal budget paints a gloomy misleading picture of Canadian society.


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From 1993 to 2003, nine of every 10 Canadians who started out in the lowest income group moved up to higher income groups.