Juggling a full time job isn’t easy when you’re in high school. In Toronto there is an achievement gap between students from different ethnic backgrounds, and those from low-income families and single parent households are at a greater risk of dropping out. Education determines employment opportunities in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, but it’s hard to compete when [...]

Neils Veldhuis, Vice-President of Canadian Policy Research for the Fraser Institute, talks about moving up the income ladder. Although a recent op-ed column in the New York Times called income inequality “the next global warming,” the number of families that can’t afford basic needs like food and housing has decreased in the past decade. The [...]