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October 5, 2000
Growing Together:
Priorities for the 2001 Federal Budget
Section 5
NOTES
Between 1997 and 1998, the poverty rate among families dropped from 14.3 to 13.0%, and among unattached individuals, it fell from 41.2 to 39.4%. Statistics Canada, Income in Canada (Ottawa: 2000) p. 218. Ibid., p. 218. Ibid., p. 220. These data are based on after-tax income quintiles. Ibid., p. 94. Ibid., p. 90. Ibid., p. 94. Andrew Jackson, "Tax Cuts: The Implications for Growth and Productivity," in Canadian Tax Journal, Vol. 48, No. 2, 2000. Jim Stanford, "Paul Martin's Tax Revolt," in Policy Options, March 2000. Gail Fawcett, Bringing Down the Barriers: The Labour Market and Women with Disabilities in Ontario. Ottawa: Canadian Council on Social Development, 2000. John Myles and Garnett Picot, "Social Transfers, Earnings and Low-Income Intensity among Canadian Children, 1981-96: Highlighting Recent Developments in Low-Income Measurement," Analytical Studies Branch, Statistics Canada, Research Paper No. 144, March 2000. One estimate of the costs suggests that providing a universal benefit equal to the 1998 level of the CCTB, including the supplement ($1,625), would be roughly $6 billion. John Richards, "The Case for Earnings Supplements," in Douglas W. Allen and John Richards (eds.) It Takes Two: The Family in Law and Finance (Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, 1999). Cited in Vincent and Woolley, p. 28. Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Toward a National Housing Strategy, a Working Paper prepared for the FCM Big City Mayors Caucus, April 26, 2000. http://www.fcm.ca/english/national, p. 1. Ibid. Jeanne Wolfe, "Canadian Housing Policy in the Nineties," in Housing Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1998.
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