Harpernomics 101: low-income jobs growing, high-income jobs falling

Published January 28, 2015

Jason Kenney wasn’t quick to Tweet about Wednesday’s employment numbers. Stephen Harper’s employment minister faced a double dose of bad news on the job front. Great to see the creation of 54,000 full time #jobs last month: http://t.co/9hOMc20dD9 — Jason Kenney ن (@kenneyjason) January 9, 2015 New Statistics Canada data shows that the quality of Canadian jobs has declined since 2006 — the […]

Unemployed? Good luck getting EI as eligibility hits all-time low

Published August 25, 2014

Just 36.6% of unemployed workers are receiving Employment Insurance — an all-time low in Canada, according to the latest government statistics. The new milestone, calculated by comparing the number of regular EI beneficiaries in the latest Statistics Canada report with the number of unemployed workers from the Labour Force Survey, follows a series of policy […]

The pay-for-performance myth

Published July 25, 2014

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-22/for-ceos-correlation-between-pay-and-stock-performance-is-pretty-random

Making sense of middle class troubles

Published February 24, 2014

So it turns out Canada’s middle class haven’t been doing so well. That assessment is found in an internal government document prepared last fall by Employment and Social Development Canada. The report, pasted below, covers the period of 1993 to 2007. (The Liberals governed between October 1993 and January 2006, while the Conservatives governed from the beginning […]

Top 5 howlers in Jim Flaherty’s budget speech

Published February 11, 2014

Here are the top 5 howlers in Jim Flaherty’s budget speech, delivered in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon after the 2014-15 budget was tabled. 1. Great job creator? “Since the depths of the recession Canada has led the G-7 in job creation.” It sounds good, but there’s a reason Flaherty doesn’t talk about […]

Job numbers hit Tories in the gut

Published January 10, 2014

The Conservative government’s talking points on jobs took a hit Friday as Statistics Canada reported a loss of 46,000 jobs in December. The drop, “the results of declines in full-time work,” means the unemployment rate rose 0.3 percentage points to 7.2%, Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey said. “Dampened by the decline in December, employment gains in 2013 amounted to 102,000 or 0.6%. […]

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