{"id":17988,"date":"2012-11-21T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17988"},"modified":"2012-11-21T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:04:48","slug":"canadas-poor-getting-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/canadas-poor-getting-richer\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s \u201cpoor\u201d getting richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a BA failed in Britain used to be the equivalent of a BA with honours in India, being poor in Canada is the equivalent of extravagant wealth in the Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, though, even the \u201cpoor\u201d in Canada are much better off than they were 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17989\" title=\"income-chart\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/fp1121-terry-chart2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/opinion.financialpost.com\/2012\/11\/20\/poor-getting-richer\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this this continues, the Anglican Church will lose its one of its main raison d&#8217;etres: advocating on behalf of the poor. All it will have left is global warming. And that is on thin ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as a BA failed in Britain used to be the equivalent of a BA with honours in India, being poor in Canada is the equivalent of extravagant wealth in the Sudan. As it happens, though, even the \u201cpoor\u201d in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/canadas-poor-getting-richer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[2032,1245],"class_list":["post-17988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poverty-2","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}