Amanada Brown and Jim Stanford have updated their economic
freedom for the rest of us report.

"Flying without a Net" provides comparative data on Canada and
each province right up to 1999 on indicators such as:
employment rate, underemployment rate, duration of
underemployment, weekly earnings, labour income share, minimum
wage, income distribution, gender equality, hour/salaried
equality, poverty rate, public program spending, social
assistance rate, quit rate, and unionization rate.

The report is available at http://www.policyalternatives.ca


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In the early hours I read in the paper of epoch-making
projects
On the part of pope and sovereigns, bankers and oil barons.
With my other eye I watch
The pot with the water for my tea
The way it clouds and starts to bubble and clears again
And overflowing the pot quenches the fire.

 -- Bertolt Brecht
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Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
University of Toronto
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