- The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
- Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary Theory
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood at all, and most people who have heard or read it somewhere breeze right past it, and fall back to the taxes-for-spending paradigm that is the sticky common wisdom of the left and right.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- A Challenge to Canadas Wealthiest 0.1%
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Globe's article on income gap really propaganda
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Journalist Barrie McKenna, writing in the main hyped-up article in the Globes Focus section on November 9, 2013, talks about how the gap in income between the rich and the rest of us is a serious problem that will hurt Canada for generations to come.
- Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined from U.S. Workers in 2009
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The upward redistribution has remained as hidden as possible. The forms it has takenas bonuses, bloated salaries, elephantine stock options, padded consulting fees, outsized compensation to boards of directors, sumptuous conferences, palatial offices complete with original artwork, retinues of superfluous support staff, hunting lodges, private corporate dining rooms, regal retirement agreements, and so ondefy exact categorization. Some would appear as profit, some as interest, some as dividends, realized capital gains, gigantic pension programs, retained earnings, or owners income, with the remainder deeply buried as costs of doing business.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- Plutocracy in America
Runaway Exploitation Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Arguments for categorizing America as a plutocracy (a government of the rich and for the rich).
- The Rich and the Super-Rich
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969
- The rich get richer
Resource Type: Article Published: 1992
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981
- Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Top 1 percent own more than half of world's wealth
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A new report issued by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse finds that global wealth inequality continues to worsen and has reached a new milestone, with the top 1 percent owning more of the worlds assets than the bottom 99 percent combined. Of the estimated $250 trillion in global assets, the top 1 percent owned almost exactly 50 percent, while the bottom 50 percent of humanity owned collectively less than 1 percent. The richest 10 percent owned 87.7 percent of the world's wealth, leaving 12.3 percent for the bottom 90 percent of the population.
- 23 Mind-Blowing Facts About Income Inequality In America
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011
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