{"id":3424,"date":"2015-11-20T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:58:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:58:44","slug":"ontario-backsliding-as-income-inequality-balloons-manufacturing-jobs-drain-out-of-province-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/ontario-backsliding-as-income-inequality-balloons-manufacturing-jobs-drain-out-of-province-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario \u2018backsliding,\u2019 as income inequality balloons, manufacturing jobs drain out of province, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

(November 20, 2015)<\/p>\n

Almost half of Ontarians stuck in neutral as top 10 per cent “make off like bandits” OFL says<\/p>\n

By: Canadian Manufacturing.com Staff, Canadian Manufacturing.com<\/p>\n

Ontario has an unemployment rate of 7.3 per cent, above the national average of 6.9 per cent. PHOTO: Benson Kua, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n

TORONTO\u2014An entire generation of Ontarians has come of age in a province battered by mounting inequality, eroding social programs and a \u201cballooning\u201d part-time workforce, a new Ontario Common Front report<\/a>, says.<\/p>\n

Contrasting Canada\u2019s largest province with the rest of the country, the report outlines the \u201csea change\u201d transforming Ontario\u2019s labour force as well as what it calls the worst cuts to social programs in the country. Commissioned by Ontario
\nCommon Front, an Ontario Federation of Labour-spearheaded coalition that consists of more than 90 labour and community groups across the province, the report paints a bleak picture of the province\u2019s past several decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cA quarter-million jobs have completely vanished from Ontario and fully half of all Ontarians have seen little or no improvement in their incomes [in the past 30 years], while the top 10 percent are making off like bandits,\u201d Ontario Federation of Labour president, Sid Ryan, said.<\/p>\n

Since 1997, the share of Ontario\u2019s work force earning minimum wage has increased more than five-fold, the report notes. Today 1.7 million people in Ontario\u2014about a third of the province\u2019s workers\u2014earn within $4 of minimum wage.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor racialized workers, immigrants, women and youth, that proportion is much higher,\u201d the report\u2019s author, Natalie Mehra, notes.<\/p>\n

Full-time work has also come under fire across Ontario. The province\u2019s residents now face a tougher time finding a full-time position than their counterparts across Canada. To cope with the tough labour market, workers are taking part-time positions. Involuntary part-time work in Ontario has increased from five per cent below the rest of the country in 2000, to 8 per cent above the national average in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cOntario is dead last in funding for social programs and, by nearly every measure, it is trailing every other province in income equality and poverty reduction,\u201d Mehra said. \u201cWhile it is hard to start a family anywhere in Canada, young families in Ontario are struggling with the largest student debt loads, the most expensive child care, the worst access to affordable housing and highest costs for health care \u2013 all at a time when good jobs are being replaced with precarious, part-time and temporary employment at unprecedented.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manufacturing has been particularly hard-hit. The report found Ontario lost 317,900 manufacturing jobs from 2000-2014. Meanwhile, the province still needs to add 270,000 new jobs in order to return to the employment rate of 63.7 per
\ncent seen in September 2008 before the recession.<\/p>\n

The report also highlights significant income disparity and differing prospects for the province\u2019s poorest and richest residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween 1976 and 1990 there was, on average an 11 times difference between the lowest 20 per cent and the highest 20 per cent of income earning families. From 1991 to 2011, the average difference between the lowest-earning families and the highest had almost doubled to 19 times,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

The most startling cases occur in Toronto, where the richest one per cent in Toronto earn in three years what 90 per cent of the city\u2019s tax filers will earn in an entire lifetime.<\/p>\n

Among other notable challenges, the report pointed to the fact university tuition fees in Ontario have outpaced inflation by 601 per cent over the past 20 years and are by far the highest in the country, even while per student funding for higher education ranks dead last nationally.<\/p>\n

Despite the worrying figures, Ontario Common Front did credit premier Kathleen Wynne \u201cfor taking initial steps to break with the austerity agenda laid out by her predecessor.\u201d It pointed to reductions in child poverty and the push to expand the public pension plan as examples of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is good news to be extracted from this report, it is that every other province in Canada has charted a better course than Ontario. This serves as proof that every government is capable of making different choices,\u201d Mehra said.<\/p>\n

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