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The ‘Ball’ or the ‘Bridge’
The stark choice for social assistance reform in Ontario Download 242.76 KB5 pages
Make poverty reduction the focus of economic stimulus plans
A growing chorus of voices from across BC is calling on all political parties to commit to a provincial poverty reduction plan with legislated targets…
Research for Communities: Home Ownership
Outcomes for families and communities Download 102.31 KB4 pages
Research for Communities: Home-ownership for Low-Income Households
Outcomes for families and communities Download 466.49 KB59 pages
The Time is Now
A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC https://vimeo.com/3346138 This is the first chapter in a narrated slideshow about poverty in British Columbia and what we can…
Susan Henry talks about poverty in Vancouver, Canada
https://vimeo.com/3670687 Susan is an advocate at First United Church in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside — the poorest neighbourhood in Canada. The church lets homeless people take…
Richard talks about poverty and hope
https://vimeo.com/3670615 Richard receives disability benefits through British Columbia’s welfare program. Disability benefits are very low (less than $1000 a month in a city where the…
Poverty Amid Plenty
A Slideshow About Welfare in BC https://vimeo.com/3593782 This is the first chapter from a narrated video slideshow about British Columbia’s welfare system. View the rest…
Judy Graves on why welfare matters to everyone
https://vimeo.com/3670669 Judy Graves is a housing advocate with the City of Vancouver in BC, Canada. Judy talks about why welfare (or social assistance) is so…
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