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@JimboStanford
May 6, 2020 • 9 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Here’s a THREAD with some big news from me and @CntrFutureWork: We are going GLOBAL! This month we are opening a new office in Vancouver, Canada, where we will conduct great progressive research on #FutureOfWork issues in Canada, and around the world …2
Our @CntrFutureWork team in Australia is still working full speed ahead on Aussie labour issues: focusing now on the impacts of #COVID19, the JobKeeper program, IR changes & more. @ak_pennington, @Dan_Nahum and me will keep churning it out with our partners at @TheAusInstitute…3 Image
With our new Cdn office, we'll now be doing similar work in Canada. We’ll look at how work is changing, and how to make it better. We’ll cover technology, gig work, wage stagnation, precarity, collective bargaining & more. Please visit our website: centreforfuturework.ca …4
We're opening our Canadian office in collaboration with our friends at the @ccpa, where I have long served as a voluntary Research Associate. Our office will be located in shared space with the @CCPA_BC team & we'll work on many joint projects together …5
A focus for our initial work is a very exciting project called #PowerShare. It's a multi-year research project, in partnership with @AtkinsonCF & the @ccpa, to study how to shift power relationships in the #FutureOfWork …6 Image
Amidst all the hoopla about new technology & digital business models, and knee-jerk advice that workers just need to ‘get more skills’ and ‘become more flexible’, one key issue is typically ignored. The #FutureOfWork discourse doesn’t pay nearly enough attention to *power* …7
Technology isn't inherently good or bad; it can help workers, or hurt them. It all depends on who makes the decisions, and who has power to advance their interests. #PowerShare will study the determinants of workers’ power to advance demands for better work--and win them …8
Our 1st #PowerShare report, coming this spring, will focus on the #COVID19 crisis & how it must change work ‘for good’ (in both senses of that term!). There are many ways the pandemic should lead to better, safer, fairer work. We'll investigate concrete ways to achieve that ...9
I'm super excited to jump back into #cdnecon debates! Our Cdn office of @CntrFutureWork, & the great partnerships we're building, will help to win a better future for work, & workers. To stay in touch, please sign up for our Cdn contact list at: centreforfuturework.ca/contact/. END

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Aug 20
OK sir, now let's do 2024.
Hourly wages (measured by the LFS) have grown twice as fast as prices (measured by the CPI) in the last 12 mos.
And by the way, there are several other serious problems with that original chart, in addition to it being 2 years out of date. #cdnecon /2
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A. You don't calculate change in real wage by subtracting the inflation rate from % wage growth. You must calculate an index (dividing wage by CPI) and measure how that changes.
B. The proper change in so-called 'pay' (more on this below) for 2022 was thus -4.0%, not -4.3% /3
C. The StatsCan report which Mr Poilievre cites explicitly states (in both text & charts) that the real income change was -4.0%, not -4.3%. (They can do the math right.) So the CPC chart-makers deliberately chose to use a higher (but false) number. They can't claim ignorance. /4
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Jun 26
This is an own goal: Grocery prices did not surge 1.5% on June 25, they grew by 1.5% over the 12 months ending in May 2024. That's *lower* than the rate when Freeland announced the capital gains reform, and *below* the Bank of Canada's optimal 2% target for inflation. #cdnpoli /2
Can we thus credit Freeland's tax reform for *lowering* the rate of grocery inflation? Of course not: it's ridiculous to link the two. Blaming taxes, instead of Loblaws, Cargill, PepsiCo, oil companies, and climate change for high food prices, is world-class bait and switch. /3
Also, this reform does not increase taxes on families who *run* farms. It counts 1/6 more of large gains made by people who *sell* farms--and only *after* exhausting $1.25m lifetime exemption, special reserves to avg one-time gains, & special rules for intra-family transfer. /4
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May 31
🇨🇦 consumers ride to the rescue!! 0.7% lift in real household consumption accounts for almost all the 0.4% rise in real GDP in 1Q24. That in turn was thanks mostly to a 1.5% rise in labour compensation, which grew 3x faster than consumer prices (consumption deflator). #cdnecon /2
Real wages are growing now at a decent pace, thanks to feisty unions, higher min wages, and workers demanding real wage repair. That has literally saved 🇨🇦 from a recession. This is the macroeconomic phenomenon of wage-led growth in action. #canlab /3
For those still losing sleep over wage-price spirals, don't worry: the GDP deflator fell slightly, and the consumption deflator (akin to CPI) rose just 0.5%. That's the slowest since COVID lockdowns, and pretty much equals the Bank of Canada's 2% annual target. /4
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Apr 16
Biggest non-story in #Budge2024 is the deficit. Fcst hardly changed from last year, despite new spending on several initiatives. That's partly cuz of new $$ from the capital gains change (which is great). But mostly cuz revenues keep outpacing pessimistic forecasts. #cdnecon /2
Those forecasts are still deliberately pessimistic, leaving room for positive surprises before the 2025 election. Conservatives who've invested so much in attacking govt for running bigger deficits will be disarmed. A smaller deficit does nothing to help with cost of living. /3
But direct help with necessities of life (dental care, drugs, child care, disability benefits, student lunches, PSE student loans/grants) will make an incremental difference. Most Canadians will receive something from one or more of those programs. /4
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Apr 13
Not the worst thing to fear this awful day, but important anyway: get ready for another burst of oil-led inflation. Orthodox central bankers will claim the only thing to do is keep int rates higher, for longer--punishing workers further for a crisis they didn't cause. /2 #cdnecon
Can we learn from the Feb 2022 price shock, and stop profit-led energy inflation (which quickly spread into the broader economy) before it starts? Here's my Dec'23 @TorontoStar column with ideas for how to prevent another oil-led inflation outburst: . /3thestar.com/business/anoth…
The idea of regulating strategic prices (like energy) to stop inflation from getting going (rather than dragging down the whole economy to stop it later), first ridiculed, is now widely accepted (even by places like the Bundesbank), thanks to work by @IsabellaMWeber & others. /4
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Mar 29
Carbon-tax fever is reaching a peak, as April 1 (when both the price and the rebate payments increase) approaches. So I'm re-posting my review of gasoline prices in calendar 2023. Key takeaway: the ups and downs of gasoline prices can't be ascribed to carbon pricing. /2 #cdnecon Image
Gasoline ended '23 5₵/litre lower than it began, despite a higher carbon price (worth about 3₵/l, offset by CAIP rebates). The ups & downs of oil prices are dominated by oil companies & futures markets, not carbon prices. The 2022 oil price surge added 40x more to gas prices./3
The federal Clean Fuel Reg (which Poilievre derided as a second carbon tax) had no lasting impact either. In fact, Cdns who followed Poilievre's advice to gas up before July 1 to avoid this 'tax' actually lost a few bucks (cuz prices *fell* afterward): . /4centreforfuturework.ca/2024/01/03/rev…
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