If you want to get involved with addressing the issue of economic inequality and growing poverty in our community, here is a great place to start learning:

Presentations

• Trish Hennessy (City Symposium)
• Mike Moffatt (City Symposium)
• Michael Shapcott (City Symposium)
• Richard Wilkinson (TED)

Reports & Studies

Governments must tackle record gap between rich and poor (OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, December 2011)

Articles

The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1% (Armine Yalnizan)

Less on their Plate: Canada’s poorest people facing a frightful food crisis (John Stapleton)

Trading Places: Single Adults Replace Lone Parents as the New Face of Social Assistance in Canada (John Stapleton with Vass Bednar)

Turn out the Lights (John Stapleton, November 2011)

In From The Margins: A Call To Action On Poverty, Housing And Homelessness (December 2009)

Debates

Big Ideas: Armine Yalnizyan and William Watson on economic disparity (TVO)

Contention (counter points-of-view)

The poor are doing better than you think (Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Dec 10/2011)

The myth of income inequality in Canada (Amela Karabegovic and Charles Lammam, National Post, Sep 26, 2011)

‘God Bless Income Disparity’ (Quoting Dennis Gartman)