The price of gasoline in Canada has increased by 20 cents per litre over the last 90 days, but the #CarbonTax going up by 3 cents is somehow cascading through the economy, driving inflation, increasing food prices, and bankrupting small business. (also. Rebates)

canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

New in @policyalternatives Monitor: When a worker takes a paycheck home, 100% is that income is taxable. Now, the rich in Canada are complaining because 66% of their highest level income will be taxable—and only above $250,000 in annual profits. By David Macdonald #canlab monitormag.ca/articles/worke…

With respect Mike, this take is wrong on many levels: 1. Current income supports are not ‘wealth’. 2. An expansion of public pensions will benefit today’s youth when they get older. 3. The struggle over distribution is not between young and old, it’s between poor and rich. /2

Assistant professor Adam DK King has a recent article in Jacobin about the federal government’s intervention in the Teamsters’ rail negotiations jacobin.com/2024/09/canada…

Time is right for ⁦Manitoba's NDP⁩ to reverse the 2023 PC tax income tax cuts that help the rich most and use that $500 million to pay its own workers a living wage. cbc.ca/news/canada/ma…

Pierre Poilievre is scapegoating immigrants for the housing crisis, claiming it’s just “simple math.” But his math doesn’t add up.

jacobin.com/2024/10/scurvy…

Assistant professor Adam DK King has an article The Conversation Canada about how the growth of gig work is impacting the Canada Post strike theconversation.com/canada-post-st…

Here's my take for PEF on the so-called 'vibecession': progressive-economics.ca/2024/12/interr…. If sentiment is so negative, why are people spending more? Is the vibecession mostly political (fueled by negative media & social media), or can it restrain the real economy? 🤷‍♂️#cdnecon

The 2024 Living Wage Report is out! 📊 While costs are stabilizing for some, challenges remain. Read about some important shifts that have been made and find out what it takes to make ends meet in Winnipeg, Brandon, and Thompson #mbpoli #LivingWage policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

By 10:54am today, the first work day of 2025, the average top CEO made as much as the avg worker makes in a year. This galling inequality never fails to shock: policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…. Many thanks David Macdonald and @policyalternatives for continuing to expose the greed of this system. #cdnecon

Those big GDP numbers about interprovincial trade barriers are wrong; policyalternatives.ca/news-research/…

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

Tax and cash transfer promises are flying fast and furious in this federal #election. I’ve been modelling them all and here are the average impacts for NDP, CPC and Liberals by deciles of pre-tax income. @policyalternatives 🧵👇👇👇 for by program and poverty amounts.

All want to help low income earners so let’s see what the average benefit from the combined plans is on those living below the poverty line (MBM).

Turns out most Americans don't want to go back to the factory to screw tiny screws in long shifts day and night. Who would have thought!?