If you feel like you’re being pushed around in life, you’re not alone. Our recent research has found that Canadians are increasingly feeling a sense of powerlessness in their lives. This sentiment has been steadily increasing, driven by economic challenges and rising perceptions of inequality.
In 2019, we led a national survey on quality of work and economic life with the assistance of the Angus Reid Group. Since then, we have repeated this survey annually, amassing a dataset of 23,000 Canadians across the socioeconomic spectrum.
We’ve repeated questions that measure what researchers call powerlessness, which captures the lack of personal control and helplessness we feel when dealing with problems
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