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This article has crystallized some back-burner thoughts I've had on the rise in popularity of the term "K-shaped recovery".Here I go:https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1319974189537906689 The term causes you to think abou

More than a quarter (27%) of 3,389 small firms with employees that responded, from a CFIB membership of 110,000 small firms (including the self-employed with no employees), from a business

Morneau noted that the feds are the BEST borrowers in the land (lower risks/costs than for cash strapped provinces, municipalities, businesses, households, and poor people, ranked in ascending order of

BTW this was a suggestion first made 100 years ago, to deal with impact of WWI and Spanish Flu knocking out essential services.https://twitter.com/chambart/status/1265252673974132736 Nice survey of who else in the

Dear "why not cut everyone a $2K cheque" crowd:I will be talking about this tomorrow at the Broadbent confab about basic income Thurs aft 1 pm ET, register here: https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/would_a_universal_basic_income_guarantee_a_g

A jobs guarantee won't help all, but the answer is not "universal".The answer is welfare reform, unsayable since the attack on welfare in the early 1990s.Not everyone, but a lot

Here are some of the things I've written about the UBI/"cut 'em a cheque" approach.1998: The Growing Gap, pp. 101-104 https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/growing-gap-report2016: Basic incomes vs basic services htt

A fantastic "real time" analysis of what is happening in the U.S. job market, from Alexander Bick (Arizona State U) and Adam Bland (Virginia Commonwealth U) https://alexbick.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/1/3/101306056/bb_covid.pdf20% of LF was

PMJT: today we are announcing we will be topping up pay of essential workers, expanding CERB for those earning some (not $0), seasonal workers, and EI exhaustees. PMJT: Talking to

Another crackerjack piece by @ricardo_tranjan, exposing a market based on exploitation, poised to explode, and no federal emergency response.Way to go Ricardo!Some thoughts about how to fix it from me

Same on timely labour market information.Yet we know from census stats (and some epidemiological data in public health) that low-income is associated with shorter life expectancy and greater risk of

Share of jobs lost by women? 62%Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to the She-Cession. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/jobs-report-to-show-ground-zero-of-covid-19-impact-in-canada"Unlike previous recessions, this downturn is decima