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Saturday, July 21, 2001, The Halifax Herald ~ Ralph Surette

Rethinking the wealth gap, Nova Scotia-style

“ GPI Atlantic, which is constructing a "genuine progress index" for Nova Scotia to measure economic progress in a more complete way than standard methods, brought the subject home with a thud this week. ¶ According to these measurements, drawn mostly from Statistics Canada data, Nova Scotia's poor are the poorest in the country – poorer even than in Newfoundland which has traditionally been on the bottom of the heap. For the very poorest, it's by quite a bit – 12 per cent poorer than in Newfoundland. ”

Friday, July 20, 2001, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Peter Mclaughlin

Life, on $7 a day

How one Nova Scotian gets by in the country's lowest income bracket
“ Over the past decade, middle-income Nova Scotians have lost the most in absolute income - about $3,600 - compared with the rest of the country. The poorest, however, have lost the most as a percentage of their disposable income, down 29 per cent since 1990. ¶ The richest 20 per cent of Nova Scotians have the biggest share of the pie, controlling about 42 per cent of the total annual disposable income. ”

N.S. poor worst off in Canada, study says
Friday, July 19, 2001, The Halifax Herald

Why good times are bad news for most in N.S.
Friday, July 19, 2001, The Daily News, Halifax ~ John McLeod
“ ECONOMIC GROWTH, commonly measured by the gross domestic product (GDP), is often assumed to benefit most of us, at least to some degree. But a report released yesterday by the Halifax-based non-profit research group GPI Atlantic comes to a startling, and opposite, conclusion. ”

Friday, July 19, 2001, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Brendan Elliott

Canada’s poorest families live in Nova Scotia – report

“ "This large gap creates a lack of social cohesion. You get the kind of bitterness you had in the recent (health-care) dispute," Colman said. "You get this increasing polarization. More alienation, more resentment." ¶ The great divide between the province's rich and poor hasn't always existed. In 1980, Nova Scotia had the third-smallest gap in the country between rich and poor. The province's lowest disposable income was $9,495, compared with $67,630 for the highest. ”

Income Distribution in Nova Scotia
July 2001	Living Standards
Authors: Colin Dodds, M.A. and Ronald Colman, Ph.D
Statistical and socio-economic analysis of income distribution trends regionally and over time in Nova Scotia, including inter-provincial and gender comparisons. Accompanied by a 266-page database with income distribution trends for Canadian provinces.
Abstract	Executive Summary 5 pages 232K PDF
ISBN 0-9689923-0-7	Full Report 60 pages 948K PDF
	Database (xls) 640K ZIP
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