Most recently I was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, in segment entitled: “ Growing Up ‘White,’ Transracial Adoptee Learned To Be Black.” Greetings, I’m Chad Goller-Sojourner, a Seattle-based writer, performer, transracial adoptee, and the creator of two solo performances: Sitting in Circles with Rich White Girls: Memoirs of a Bulimic Black Boy and Riding in Cars with Black People & Other Newly Dangerous Acts: A Memoir in Vanishing Whiteness. I’ll let Chad explain (and keep reading for an excerpt!) I swear he’s the funniest person on facebook.) Chad has a new venture coming out and I wanted to help promote it. I think it will be of great interest to adoptive parents. (He’s also a great source of entertainment. Since that time, Chad has been a great source of information and perspective for me as I navigate parenting in a transracial family.
Which is what keeps pundits employed.A while back, I featured an extensive interview with Chad Goller-Sojourner about his experiences growing up black in a white adoptive family. Of course, the reality is that both views are probably right. What I’m saying is income inequality surprisingly - it was an absolutely stunner to me that in actual fact - since 1998 hasn’t risen,” he said in an interview.
“I’m not saying we don’t have income inequality in Canada and that inequality isn’t a problem. Instead it quotes Alexander poo-pooing it. The Star does eventually get around to the gap still existing, but still doesn’t give it the usual Star populist hysteria treatment. Meanwhile, the solid pace of household income growth here since 1997 had created that Canadian income advantage by 2010. incomes have suffered in the wake of two recessions, including the “devastating impact” of the 2008 financial crisis, and have declined fairly steadily to a 16-year low in 2011. income was 10 per cent higher than in Canada. It’s a more accurate measure than average because it eliminates the extreme highs and lows.) For most of the past two decades, there has been a sizeable gap in median incomes between Canadian and U.S. (Median means half of households earned more and half earned less. at $55,000 a year - by 2011, the report found. for years, median household incomes in Canada were 10 per cent higher than in the U.S. than in Canada and has been rising faster since 1998. “So, the natural question is, if we have all these increasing concerns about income inequality, why isn’t the traditional benchmark showing it?” The report, Income and Income Inequality: A Tale of Two Countries, found income inequality is worse in the U.S.
“We were very surprised to discover that according to the benchmark used for measuring income inequality there hasn’t been an increase since 1998,” TD chief economist Craig Alexander said in an interview Tuesday. Those findings surprised even its authors, a group of economists at TD Bank, given the growing public outcry over income inequality. The gap between rich and poor in Canada hasn’t changed in more than two decades, a new report says. Instead, The Star seems more impressed that the gap hasn’t changed that much, and Canadians are doing better than Americans. You’d expect The Star to jump on a report like this, right? The Occupy movement was right, and all that? The 1% continue to stick their jackboots in the poor etc? And he points out, those in the middle of the range have seen the slowest pace of increases as the downward pressure on jobs and wages in the manufacturing sector has weighed on growth.Īlright, now here’s the Toronto Star’s take. “So part of the issue around income inequality is the fact that households at the low end of the income scale have extremely low absolute levels of income and that’s a major challenge,” Alexander said. Meanwhile, at the high end of the income scale, the top 20% have seen an 18% increase in income since 1998, but that translates into $26,700 to bring their income to $171,900. After a 20% increase, the after-inflation level of income of those in the bottom 20% increased to only $15,200 in 2010 from $12,700 in 1998. “Although the traditional benchmark of income inequality isn’t showing an increase, the absolute levels of income matter enormously,” he said. Please try again Article content Even though the poorest saw a slightly larger percentage gain in income, absolute gains - the amount of dollars in a person’s pocket - tell a different story, said TD Bank chief economist Craig Alexander. The next issue of NP Platformed will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.