16
Percentage median incomes increased for Canada’s top earners between 1980 and 2005
0.1
Percentage median incomes increased for middle-class earners
20
Percentage median incomes decreased for lowest-paid earners
26
Percentage increase in the number making more than $100K a year from 2000 to 2005
30
Percentage increase in the number making more than $150K a year
39
Percentage share of national income of Canada’s richest 1 per cent
3.5 million
Number living in low-income households (about 11 per cent of all Canadians, 15 per cent of them children under 17)
66
Percentage of Toronto neighbourhoods that were middle-income in 1970
29
Percentage of Toronto neighbourhoods that are middle-income today
$45,800
Median income in Canada in 1976
$48,300
Median income in 2009 (an increase of 5.5 per cent in 33 years, a rate many times lower than inflation)
128,000
Increase in the number of seniors living in poverty in Canada between 2006 and 2009
Sources: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Conference Board of Canada, Toronto Community Foundation, David Hulchanski’s report Three Cities Within Toronto
