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  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    BC’s minimum wage should not be a poverty wage

    Labour and social justice groups in BC have long urged the provincial government to increase the minimum wage to a level that guarantees a path out of poverty for a single person working full-year, full-time. Year after year, the government has turned them down with the argument that BC already…

  • Labour Matters
    Manitoba Research Alliance

    How Government Support for Social Enterprise can Reduce Poverty and Greenhouse Gases

    Download 773.12 KB24 pages A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and employing Inner City workers. The provincial government and Manitoba Hydro are supporting social enterprises so they…

  • Bucking the National Trend

    BC’s welfare cuts and poverty among lone mothers BC’s newspapers are full of banner headlines about record housing starts, construction booms and decades-low unemployment. “The numbers don’t lie” proclaim the boosters of the province’s policy record. Well, they can lie by omission. There is a dark side to BC’s economic…

  • Do we need a business case for poverty reduction?

    I was reading up on poverty reduction policies and I came across a paragraph by Dalhousie University economics professor Lars Osberg that was just begging to be shared and discussed on PolicyNote:

  • What is happening to public education in Manitoba?

    School trustees are consulting with parents and stakeholders for this upcoming year’s school budgets while they seem to be under attack by the provincial government. Education Minister Goertzen had a heated exchange with Winnipeg school trustees on twitter earlier this month regarding education funding and taxes. Buckle up. With the…

  • 5 lessons from Ontario’s first poverty reduction strategy

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  • Looming increases to food prices will create more challenges to reducing poverty in Manitoba

    Early last year stories hit the news about the potential for food prices to rise throughout 2011. Commodities prices for wheat, corn, sugar, and others were all on the rise which ultimately resulted in a 4.4% rise in the cost of food to December 2011. Since then, commodity prices have…

  • The year as we saw it: 10 charts that defined Ontario in 2016

    The experts at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office have been tracking economic developments in Ontario throughout the year. Some problems persist: the gender pay gap, social assistance poverty, the use of expensive payday loans as a last resort because traditional banks fail to serve low-income customers as…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    What is poverty costing us in BC?

    What is poverty costing us in BC? Help change the conversation about poverty: SHARE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVoLEARN http://www.policyalternatives.ca/costofpovertybcTAKE ACTION Look up your MLA using the MLA Finder at http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/3-1-1.htm and call, email, or visit their office (report in hand) to tell them that the cost of poverty is too high. Contact them while…

  • NDP propose BC Poverty Reduction Act

    Today in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Shane Simpson) introduced a private member’s Bill proposing a BC Poverty Reduction Act. That Act, were it to be enacted, would see the government develop a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy, and legislate specific targets and timelines to reduce the breadth and…

  • Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy can make progress on decent work

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  • Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: Still missing a federal partner

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