Monday, January 9, 2012

LOCKED IN POVERTY- BC- 400,000 PEOPLE


Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011
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http://www.raisetherates.org/resources.html

Families and children were hit very hard by the welfare cuts of 2002 - almost 1 in 4 children in BC live in poverty, a third of food bank users are children, and single parents are more than 60% likely to live in poverty. The 2007 provincial budget welfare increase did little to change this. More information on the effects of welfare policies on families and children can be found here.


http://www.raisetherates.org/resources.html
http://mlaonwelfare.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/welfarefactsheet.pdf
http://mlaonwelfare.com/

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