May 13, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Nick has loaned people money with the same bills those customers used to repay their delinquent loans moments earlier.
‘They like having people in debt’: Your payday loan stories
Global News – Instability Trap
Alberta slashes payday loan fees to lowest in Canada
May 12, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Alberta is reducing the maximum amount payday lenders can charge to the lowest in Canada and requiring these companies to give borrowers more time to pay back the money they owe.
‘We are loan sharks’: Why this woman’s leaving the payday loan business
May 11, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
You don’t ask people how much they want to borrow: You tell them how much you’re lending them.
Income immobility: Fewer Canadians are moving up – or down – the income ladder
May 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canadians have less income mobility than they’ve had in decades as fewer people move up the income ladder — and even fewer move down.
House poor: Canadians who earn the least pay the most for a home
April 18, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Jaimi Zammit left North Vancouver to escape unreachable rents but they followed her — north along the Sea-to-Sky highway to Squamish, where she and her family found themselves renting a $2,000-a-month house on an income of $2,000 a month.
Wage gap: The more women lean in, the more unequal their pay
April 18, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
If you’re a woman, the more professionally successful you are, the less you make relative to your male colleagues.
Your stories: Readers sound off on Universal Child Care Benefit
July 13, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
When Lily Ann reached kindergarten, her mom’s delicate daycare calculus derailed.
Who benefits from Canada’s Universal Child Care Benefit?
July 13, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
If you hand parents a cheque, will they work more?
How do you fix Canada’s labour instability trap?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 15, 2015
Across parties and levels of government, politicians are scrambling to reshape 20th-century labour policies to fit a 21st-century workforce.
Budget 2015: Who benefits from doubling TFSA limits?
April 8, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal Conservatives have indicated they’re going to double the amount Canadians can invest in tax-free savings accounts each year, from $5,500 to $11,000.
“Canadians know that we stick to our commitments,” Finance Minister Joe Oliversaid in a letter to Tory MPs Tuesday, apparently referring to a pledge in the last election to double the limit once the budget was balanced. “I will present a balanced budget that will make life more affordable for Canadians.”
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