(Vancouver) Next week’s provincial budget should assume BC will be in a recession in 2009 and perhaps longer – and include an aggressive stimulus plan capable of reducing the length and severity of the downturn. That’s the central recommendation in BC Budget Reality Check 2009: Planning for a Recession, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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Issue(s): Alternative budgets, Economy and economic indicators, Inequality and poverty, Taxes and tax cuts
February 11, 2009
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