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  • Our recommendations for the 2017 BC Budget

    On September 22, we presented CCPA-BC research and recommendations for BC’s 2017 Budget at a public hearing as part of BC’s 2017 budget consultation process. Here’s what we told the Committee. At first glance, BC appears somewhat isolated from the economic challenges facing the rest of Canada. Headline economic indicators like…

  • Fast Facts: Increasing Benefits for Low-income Manitoba Renters through Rent Assist

    “Can you find a home for $285?? This is what a single person gets on EIA (welfare). I think not!!!”. This was the text from a placard placed on the front steps of the Manitoba legislature, in front of dozens of shoes piled up the front steps of the Manitoba…

  • Cost of Poverty in Prince Edward Island (2011)

    Download 625.04 KB13 pages This report estimates that the direct cost of poverty for the PEI government is just under 100 million dollars per year — and that these costs account for 6.7% of the 2009/10 PEI government budget. When the costs to government are added to the broader costs…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    It’s time for a meaningful increase to BC’s minimum wage

    Today, BC’s lowest paid workers get a 40-cent raise. The latest increase of the provincial minimum wage—now $10.85 per hour for most workers isn’t much to celebrate. It works out to an extra $16 per week for someone working full-time – and that doesn’t stretch far in a province with…

  • Let’s Do Something About Poverty!

    Download 2.61 MB12 pages Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS) created this document in the hope that it can serve as a catalyst for a much-needed discussion on poverty in our province. We would like this document to encourage a renewed dialogue on poverty and foster new and innovative proposals and solutions…

  • Cost of Poverty in New Brunswick

    Download 420.7 KB12 pages There has always existed a moral obligation to end poverty, first and foremost for those who are living in poverty. However, we also know that the wide-ranging costs to government and to society as a whole make a strong business case for ending poverty. In this,…

  • Nova Scotia fares poorly among Atlantic neighbours on measures of child poverty

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT HALIFAX:  A report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives assesses progress on several measures of child poverty and finds that Nova Scotia performed fared most poorly among the four Atlantic Provinces. Authors Pauline Raven and Lesley Frank used the most…

  • Capitalism is the Crisis (Part II)

    Corruption, corporate power, inequality must all be curbed India’s poor rural majority has benefited little from the country’s economic boom, and in fact has seen its position worsen. The same pro-free-market economic reforms that have made India attractive to Western capital and benefited the urban-based middle and upper classes have…

  • People don’t want cuts in government services: Ipsos-Reid

    An Ipsos-Reid poll of 800 British Columbians indicates people would rather see a deficit than see public services slashed. The poll was conducted in early August for the BC Federation of Labour.  It shows a solid majority of British Columbians disaprove of the way the government is handling the economic…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Working poverty on the rise in most Metro Vancouver municipalities

    (Vancouver) Contrary to stereotypes about poverty being concentrated mainly in Vancouver and Surrey, a new study finds the growing ranks of the working poor are spread out across the Metro Vancouver region.

  • Halifax can be a living wage leader

    Halifax City Council should heed their staff’s recommendation to “engage external stakeholders and conduct further investigation on whether or not to adopt an employee compensation/living wage policy for Council’s consideration.” There is enough evidence in Canada that becoming a living wage employer is possible for municipalities — indeed, they can…

  • BC poverty rates highest in Canada, again

    Statistics Canada released a report today on incomes across Canada in 2009. As First Call BC points out in their news release, key points for BC include: BC’s child poverty rate rose to 12 percent in 2009, the highest child poverty rate of any province for the eighth year in…