Income Inequality and Employment Challenges

employment challenges: The primary challenges faced by Canadian cities is growing income inequality and deepening poverty. Much of this has to do with the growing wage gap between the well-off and not so well-off and the employment challenges being faced by recent immigrants to Canada, many of whom are people of colour. , according to Hamilton Spectator. The first and probably the easiest to implement would be to make unionization of workplaces easier. It is well documented that workers in unionized workplaces earn better wages, experience greater job security, receive better benefits, and in all likelihood are more productive than workers in non-unionized places. Additionally, it is well demonstrated that in nations where unionization rates are higher, income inequality and poverty rates are much lower. There has been much hand-wringing about the divisions that exist in the City of Toronto mingled together with hopes that its new mayor, John Tory, will respond to these challenges. Actually, reducing the greatest divides in Toronto and most other cities in Canada including Hamilton see the Code Red Series in The Spectator would be rather easy. The solution to these problems are available through several public policy innovations that have been successfully implemented in jurisdictions both across Canada and the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.