Why BC needs a poverty reduction plan
BC is Canada’s only province without a poverty reduction plan. This report examines the most recent statistics on poverty and its associated hardships in BC, and demonstrates that strong policies are urgently needed to dramatically reduce and ultimately eliminate poverty in our province.
A comprehensive and ambitious poverty reduction plan for BC is long overdue.
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Long Overdue: Why BC Needs a Poverty Reduction Plan — SUMMARY
About the authors
Seth Klein
Seth Klein was a CCPA-BC research associate and the former CCPA-BC Director.
Iglika Ivanova
Iglika Ivanova was a Senior Economist and the Public Interest Researcher at the CCPA-BC.
Andrew Leyland
Andrew Leyland is a master's student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He was the Rosenbluth Intern in Policy Research at the CCPA-BC. He is strongly committed to improving the social determinants of health and discovering policy solutions that help build healthy, equitable societies. Andrew is also concerned by the increase in precarious employment among young Canadians, and the erosion of stable, secure, gainful jobs.