{"id":2774,"date":"2014-02-25T03:03:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T11:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2014-02-25T03:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T11:03:45","slug":"middle-class-marriage-and-money-are-the-themes-in-ottawa-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/25\/middle-class-marriage-and-money-are-the-themes-in-ottawa-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle class, marriage and money are the themes in Ottawa on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2496_485575901460334_2035279866_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2775\" alt=\"2496_485575901460334_2035279866_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2496_485575901460334_2035279866_n-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2496_485575901460334_2035279866_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2496_485575901460334_2035279866_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2496_485575901460334_2035279866_n.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; It&#8217;s all about class. The middle class.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada will release a report today that it says shows a link between marriage and income in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps not surprisingly, the pro-marriage organization says data from Statistics Canada shows that wealthy Canadians are mostly married or common-law while lower income earners are mostly unattached.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes after an internal government analysis from last fall suggested the country&#8217;s middle class is holding back economic recovery because families are so cash-strapped.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the numbers today, Statistics Canada will release its 2012 survey of financial security.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other happenings around Parliament Hill:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network continue to host a discussion about inequality in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Canadian Federation of Agriculture will hear from federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz as it holds its 2014 annual meeting, with a focus on competitiveness and the family farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver will announce what is being described as a major proposed investment in clean technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 And no word on whether he&#8217;ll be wearing green as Opposition NDP Leader Tom Mulcair speaks to the Ireland Chamber of Commerce in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada OTTAWA &#8211; It&#8217;s all about class. The middle class. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[509,508],"class_list":["post-2774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-income","tag-marriage","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}