The percentage of working-age Canadians who aren’t working – who aren’t even looking for a job – is at a historic high years after the economy supposedly bounced back from the recession.

Increasingly Canadians are relying on precarious work to make ends meet. But that uncertainty has an impact on your health, your ability to plan - and your community, experts warn.

Are payday lenders exploitative? Filling a financial need? Both? And if governments crack down, who will fill that void?

More Canadians are cashing out their RRSPs early. Not for education or a house, but because they need the money just to get by - tax penalty or no.

Following our payday loan stories this week, we've heard from people who loved working for payday loan companies, and who hated it; who got badly needed cash and who found themselves taking out loans to repay loans for years on end.

As jurisdictions across Canada look to rein in payday loan companies, Alberta plans to make its fees the lowest in the country.

As Google bans ads and Alberta prepares to unveil new payday loan legislation, Global News talks to one woman about what it's like on the other side of the counter.

The highest-earning people in Canada stay in that richest tranche; the lowest-earning people are stuck at the bottom. Those strata are the most entrenched they've been in decades.

Global News was inundated with responses to this story on the uneven beneficiaries of Canada's Universal Child Care Benefit. Here are some of them.

Canada's Universal Child Care Benefit has a very different effect on the work lives of single versus married mothers.