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Marjorie Griffin Cohen
What can be done about BC Hydro rates?
The leak of the BC Hydro Rates Working Group paper, with its estimate that rates need to increase by 26.4 % in the next two…
Why BC’s lower-wage workers are struggling: The case for stronger employment standards
BC has acquired the “distinction” of being home to Canada’s largest income gap, highest poverty rate, and second highest child poverty rate. It also has…
BC Disadvantage for Women
Earnings Compared with Other Women in Canada Download
The BC disadvantage for women
Women in BC may well decide who becomes the next premier. According to a recent Ipsos Reid poll, most are not inclined to support Christie…
Climate Change and the Canadian Energy Sector
Implications for Labour and Trade Unions Download 2.03 MB80 pages This study argues that we need a fundamental rethinking of where Canada is going in…
Going for gold on minimum wages
As we prepare to cheer for our athletes during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic games, it’s worth remembering the fields in which BC isn’t going…
Response to the Recession
Rescue the economy, protect people, and plan for the future Many items in the Canadian federal government’s economic stimulus package depend on how individual decisions…
A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC
Download 751.9 KB 65 pages This report lays out a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for BC. In 2009, after the report was published, the CCPA-BC,…
We all pay for poverty
BC needs a plan British Columbians are distressed by poverty and growing homelessness in our midst, but too often we feel resigned — that nothing…
BC Priorities in the face of an economic downturn
Gordon Campbell’s recent 10-point economic plan will have no impact on BC’s most serious problem – persistent and extreme poverty. BC has the highest poverty…
Government polices part of story of BC’s declining median income
The results of the 2006 Census on income were recently published and produced stark headlines about enormous wage declines in Canada over the past 25…
Big budget surplus a good time to bridge the gender gap
Budgets are normally presented as though they affect most people in the same way. They don’t. In recognition of this fact, “gender budgeting” has become…
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