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1. Is the Canada Child Benefit Targeted to those Most in Need?

   This essay assesses the federal government’s multiple claims that the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) is targeted to those who need it most. Any program providing benefits to 90 percent or so of families will struggle to be targeted to only those in need. Of ...

2. Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada

   In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...

3. Why measurement matters in income inequality

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Canada, like most industrial countries has its fair share of economists and politicians arguing that Canada has an inequality crisis requiring large-scale, even unprecedented government intervention to solve. More often than ...

4. Income Inequality Measurement Sensitivities

   This study measures both the current state of income inequality and its change over time (since 1982), paying particular attention to how different definitions of income and the choice of economic unit (individuals or families) influence the results. ...

5. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

   In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...

6. Fraser Forum- February 1998: Canada's Health Care System: Ideas for Reform

   In this issue: Don't Believe Everything the "Experts" Say About Health Care by David Gratzer Experts oppose the "user fee" approach to health care because they believe that fees deter people from obtaining necessary care. How to ...