What's the difference between the United States economy and Canada's economy?

<h3>What's the difference between the United States economy and Canada's economy?</h3>

What are Canada's expeditures and the United States expeditures for this year?


<strong>Canada best answer:</strong>
<p><i>Answer by simplicitus</i><br/>1. Canada has much lower income inequality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
so even though it has a slightly lower per capita PPP GDP
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD
It has a higher standard of living overall:
http://www.prosperity.com/
http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/10/oh-canada.html

In terms of the future, Canadians are better educated than Americans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index
and have a higher percentage of immigrants
http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/07/19/a-fragmenting-america-–-pt-2/
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/05/immigration
and since immigrants create jobs:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303836404577475150586192134.html
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/outsource-jobs-or-insource-workers.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/business/economy/31view.html
That's good for the future too.

2. For specific numbers, two good sites are the CIA Factbook and Trading Economics:</p>
<p><strong>Canada Day Fireworks</strong>
<img alt="Canada" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8025/7495784728_8351bc87c3.jpg" width="400"/><br/>
<i>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84454580@N00/7495784728">I_am_Allan</a></i>
Canada Day evening we went to Bowmanville as always to catch the fireworks.

We usually grab the same spot, just by Highway 2 next to a church. It's not in the &quot;official&quot; fireworks area but it's less busy for the kids. Lots of people gather in the same area. MOST of them, however, sit down and don't stand in front of you. </p>

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