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- Ed Broadbent
Issue(s): Education, Government finance, Health, Health care system, Pharmacare, Inequality and poverty, Public services and privatization, Taxes and tax cuts
October 29, 2001
(Vancouver) Inequality increased in most provinces during the 1990s, but BC held its ground, according to a new report, Behind the Headlines 2001, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. This will change, however, if the new government pursues the same market-oriented policies that led to rising inequality elsewhere.