Skip to main content

Skip to main navigation

Home Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Advanced search

Text size:
Smaller
Larger

Economic Security Project (BC)

A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates

by Steve Kerstetter

BC Office | Reports & Studies

Issue(s): Inequality and poverty

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

April 24, 2006

Download Now
588 KB PDF | 4 pages

CCPA calls on province to raise welfare rates

Arbitrary cuts, inflation have driven down benefit rates by 30% since mid-90s

News Release

Issue(s): Inequality and poverty

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

April 20, 2006

Denied Assistance

Closing the Front Door on Welfare in BC

Reports & Studies

Issue(s): Housing and homelessness, Inequality and poverty

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

March 24, 2006

Printed copies of this article can be purchased from the for: $10

$6 wage doesn’t help youth, it discriminates against them

Commentary and Fact Sheets

Issue(s): Children and youth, Employment and labour

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

February 28, 2006

Turning a blind eye to employers who break the law doesn't solve the problem

Commentary and Fact Sheets

Issue(s): Employment and labour

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

February 7, 2006

A Path Out of Poverty

Helping BC Income Assistance Recipients Upgrade Their Education

Reports & Studies

Issue(s): Education, Inequality and poverty

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

January 31, 2006

Printed copies of this article can be purchased from the for: $10

Investing in education for low-income adults pays off

News Release

Issue(s): Education, Inequality and poverty

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

January 31, 2006

Eroding Worker Protections

BC's New 'Flexible' Employment Standards

Reports & Studies

Issue(s): Employment and labour

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

November 22, 2005

Printed copies of this article can be purchased from the for: $10

Reductions in employment standards and enforcement amount to willful neglect of province’s most vulnerable workers, says labour economist

News Release

Issue(s): Employment and labour

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC)

November 22, 2005

Child and Youth Employment Standards

The Experience of Young Workers Under BC's New Policy Regime

Reports & Studies

Issue(s): Children and youth, Employment and labour

Projects & Initiatives: Economic Security Project (BC), Public Interest Research Project (BC)

September 19, 2005

Printed copies of this article can be purchased from the for: $10

Newsroom

Find Publications

About

View Shopping Cart

Support Our Work

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been, and continues to be, profoundly important to Canadian democracy…. It is virtually unique in its breadth of ideas and its depth of research.

- Ed Broadbent

Support solutions Join or Donate

Email Newswire

Stay up to date on new research: About our newswire service

Follow the CCPA

CCPA National Office | Suite 500, 251 Bank Street, Ottawa ON, K2P 1X3 | Tel: 613-563-1341 | Fax: 613-233-1458 | E-mail: ccpa@policyalternatives.ca

© 2013 Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | research • analysis • solutions | Want to use something on this site? View our terms of re(use)

Website Design & Development by Raised Eyebrow Web Studio