BC’s Minimum Wage Hikes Address Working Poverty
Minimum wage increase tied to inflation, significantly impacting working poor.
Minimum wage increase tied to inflation, significantly impacting working poor.
This blog post was originally published on the Disability Without Poverty Bill C-22 blog on June 22, 2023.
Today, after tireless advocacy from Canadians living with disabilities Bill C-22, the Canada Disability Benefit Act, received Royal Assent. The Canada Disability Benefit Act creates a new supplemental income for people living with a disability, which seeks to support financial security for a community that is twice as likely to live in poverty.
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Do our communities benefit from public spending?
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Written by John Stapleton and Yvonne Yuan from Open Policy Ontario
Five communities are tackling big questions about working poverty in rural communities.
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Vibrant Communities Calgary ’s vision is a community where there is enough for all. They create opportunities to align and leverage the work of hundreds of organizations and thousands of Calgarians to reduce poverty in their city.
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This blog post was written by Danya Pastuszek, Alison Homer, and Justin Williams.
In 2020, hundreds of you contributed to Tamarack’s Future Search. That process surfaced an aspiration to use the power of our network to shape a public policy plan and name shifting policy and advocating for systems change as one of Tamarack’s three strategic priorities.
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