The World March of Women.

Can we still afford $7 daycare?

The war on poverty and school drop outs.

Eleven ideas from the MEI for getting Quebec out of its torpor.

Eleven ideas from the MEI for getting Quebec out of its torpor.

Publication of an Economic Note and an opinion poll on social assistance reforms.

Léger Marketing poll commissioned by the Montreal Economic Institute.

Index of Economic Freedom’s 2007 Edition.

In the past dozen years, the number of people on social assistance has fallen sharply across North America. In Quebec, the number of recipients went from 813,200 in March 1996 to 492,941 in October 2006, or 6.4% of the population, the lowest level since the late 1970s. Despite this, the province has the continent’s highest proportion of people on social assistance apart from Newfoundland and the District of Columbia. This reflects both a traditionally higher level and a lower reduction than elsewhere.

CROP public poll on Quebecers’ social generosity.