Thanks to Canada’s high level of economic mobility, people do not stay at a single income level their entire lives.
social mobility
April 22, 2016
9:00AM
From 1993 to 2003, nine of every 10 Canadians who started out in the lowest income group moved up to higher income groups.
June 24, 2015
10:00AM
Is Canada still a land of opportunity? If you base your opinion on what sometimes appears on editorial pages or social media threads, you might not be sure.
June 16, 2015
11:00AM
Some columnists regularly help influence the general public’s view on important social issues. Indeed, they are opinion-shapers. So it’s unfortunate when they get things wrong—particularly when the intended audience is young and impressionable.
September 19, 2007
2:00AM
There has been a spate of news stories in recent months dealing with the suggestion that the gap between the rich and the poor in Canada is at a 30-year high. Liberal leader Stéphane Dion even promised to make the unfair distribution of income in Canada one of the major issues in the next federal election.
Claims like these make good headlines, but the cliché about the rich getting richer and the data supporting the claim are both highly misleading.