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Lifting the Boats: Policies to Make Work Pay

by Ron Saunders

Lifting the Boats: Policies to Make Work Pay. Ron Saunders. Document No|5, Vulnerable Workers Series, CPRN. June 2005. 53 pp.

A new CPRN study proposes a policy mix to see that no Canadian who works full-time is poor.

In Lifting the Boats: Policies to Make Work Pay, Ron Saunders, Director of CPRN's Work Network, explores measures to help the one in six Canadians who work for less than $10/hour improve their lot in the labour market and their community.

Release Date: 10 Jun 2005
Number of pages: 53
Document number: 37297

Theme:

Labour Market / Vulnerable Workers

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