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I'm Alright Jack . . . and other hollow arguments for doing nothing about poverty
Tuesday April 20, 2010
7 p.m.
Hamilton Spectator Auditorium
The poor will always be with us, so the story goes. So why bother trying to anything about it? How does poverty affect you, even if you aren’t poor?
For starters, the story of how we got into a colossal global economic mess –and how we will get out – is inextricably bound up by the story of rising poverty and inequality.
The prickly politics of an eroding middle class is starting to wake us up. Six provinces have taken on poverty reduction strategies, four of them since the recession began. Even the feds are being forced to consider action.
Find out how the trends involve you, and affect you. Hear what can and is being done to reduce poverty. Understand where the genuine barriers to progress lie, and real-life lessons in overcoming them. Feed your sense of the possible.
Tuesday April 20, 2010
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Lecture begins at 7 p.m.
Hamilton Specator Auditorium
To reserve your seat:
e-mail sciencecity@mcmaster.ca
Or by phone 905-525-9140, extension 24934
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ABOUT THE LECTURER
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Armine Yalnizyan is an economist who has focussed on serving the community, particularly the most vulnerable among us.
Armine is a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), joining in 2008 to advance the work of the Growing Gap project. A long-time research associate, she has participated in the Alternative Federal Budget since its launch in 1994. She has tracked trends in labour markets, income distribution, government budgets and access to services (particularly training and health care) for over 20 years.
Armine was honoured as the first Atkinson Foundation Economic Justice Fellow (2002) and received the Morley Gunderson Prize (2003) from the University of Toronto, where she obtained her MA in Industrial Relations. She serves on the boards of the Institute of Population and Public Health, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and the Canadian Association for Business Economics. She also sits on the Research Advisory Committee of Social Planning Toronto. where she was program director from 1987 to 1997, and Director of Research in 2006 and 2007.
Read The Hamilton Spectator's Interview with Armine Yalnizyan |
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