Poverty Reduction Plan

• Federal government announces ambitious plan to reduce poverty in Canada

  Legislation to implement the plan will be introduced later this year.

  Economy

  Aug 21, 2018
  
• Mental-health advocates make 25 recommendations for B.C. poverty reduction plan

  B.C. is the only province in Canada without a poverty reduction plan, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

  Health

  Apr 4, 2018
  
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• B.C. government unveils 27-member panel to help draft poverty reduction strategy

  About 40 per cent of those living in poverty are the so-called "working poor," while nearly 120,000 are children and nearly 65,000 of them are seniors according to provincial figures. 

  Economy

  Oct 30, 2017
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• B.C. NDP government says it will take several months to develop a poverty reduction plan

  Social Development Minister Shane Simpson says it will take a couple months, but a poverty reduction plan is coming.

  Politics

  Jul 21, 2017
• Poverty reduction plan for next 5 years unveiled

  The province's second poverty reduction plan was launched Friday in Fredericton, after 4,800 comments were collected from public meetings held last fall.

  May 16, 2014
• Census change makes it hard to track progress on poverty: Alward

  The premier of New Brunswick and a Crown agency mandated to reduce poverty say the demise of the long-form census has made it difficult to measure whether the province is making progress on the issue.

  May 16, 2014