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Date created
2015-11-02
Authors/Contributors
Author: Zak, Mary Clare
Author: Hern, Matt
Author: Taylor, Paul
Author: Ellis, Viveca
Author: Young, Margot
Author: Beauregarde, Bill
Abstract
Inequality has been rising for three decades in Canada. In Vancouver, the gap also continues to grow. Inequality is associated with decreasing health outcomes, poorer education levels, higher rates of mental illness, higher levels of incarceration and less social mobility. Minimum wage, social assistance rates and income levels generally, have not kept pace with the cost of living in cities. The number of people who are self-employed and underemployed has grown, while seniors' poverty has increased. This panel discussed the impacts of social inequality in Vancouver and offer policy ideas for civic governments to consider.
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Panelists:Mary Clare Zak, Managing Director, Social Policy & Project Division, City of VancouverMatt Hern, instructor in SFU Urban Studies and author of Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, Co-founder/Director of 2+10 IndustriesPaul Taylor, Executive Director of Gordon Neighborhood House in the West End, and formerly Executive Director of the DTES Neighborhood HouseViveca Ellis, Single Mothers AllianceMargot Young, law professor at UBC Bill Beauregarde, Community Coordinator, Aboriginal Front Door Society Moderated by Charlie Smith, editor of the Georgia Straight.
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Social Inequality In The City: Panel Discussion | November 2, 2015
Publication details
Document title
Social Inequality In The City: Panel Discussion
Date
2015
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English
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