BC Budget 2021
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B.C. budget expands $10-a-day childcare, boosts pay for early childhood educatorsThe NDP government's 2021 budget sees childcare spending climb by $233 million over three years, to a total of $2.3 billion by 2023-2024.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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B.C. budget earmarks $120M to help tourism sector recoverThe 2021 budget includes $3.25 billion in COVID-19 contingency funding -- $1.1 billion of which has been left available for unanticipated spending needs in the year to come.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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B.C. budget sets aside nearly $6 billion for COVID support, forecasts $8.1-billion deficitThe stronger economic footing is based on higher-than-expected revenues, including tax revenue as a result of strong housing and retail sales, and moderately lower spending.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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B.C. boosts welfare rates, makes transit free for kids in 2021 budgetB.C. is also doubling the senior's supplement, a provincial top-up to the federal Old Age Security benefit for low-income seniors, raising it by $50 per person per month.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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$500M for mental health and opioid crisis, as B.C. budget boosts health spending by $2.6BHealth-care spending is climbing by $2.6 billion over the next three years, according to documents released Tuesday, then up to $25.4 billion by 2023-2024.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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B.C. budget to focus on COVID-19 support while tabling massive deficitFinance Minister Selina Robinson will read her first budget speech around 2 p.m. PT.EconomyApr 20, 2021
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