Economic Security Project
Provincial policy changes have national and international relevance
The Economic Security Project ran from 2004 to 2009, and examined the dramatic shift in the delivery and governance of public services in British Columbia since 2001. The project set out to analyze how this policy shift affected the economic security of vulnerable populations, and to explore what policy solutions would better meet their needs. The project, led by the CCPA and Simon Fraser University, partnered with 20 academics and about 25 community groups.
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Long-term care and home health services in BC on steady decline
Province-wide audit provides clear picture of cuts since 2001, documents lost beds READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. (Vancouver) Access to long-term care and home health services for BC seniors has…
Continuing Care Renewal or Retreat?
BC Residential and Home Health Care Restructuring 2001-2004 Download 314 KB 53 pages Attachments BC Issues Primer: Cuts to Continuing Care…
BC Issues: Cuts to Continuing Care
Issue #2 Attachments BC Issues Primer: Cuts to Continuing Care…
Democratizing Public Services
Lessons from Other Jurisdictions and Implications for Health Care Reform in BC Download 225.31 KB45 pages Over the last 15 years there have been repeated calls to reform and modernize…
Inequality on the rise in BC
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) BC’s rich got richer and our poor got poorer, according to a new report on inequality. And that is before the sweeping…
New Perspectives on Income Inequality in BC
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BC’s social housing shell game
It seems barely a day goes by without a news story about BC’s hot real estate market and booming residential construction. People are buying up homes faster than you can…
Home Insecurity
The State of Social Housing Funding in BC Download 177.33 KB20 pages…
Health care privatization eliminates pay equity gains
BC now has lowest hospital support wages in Canada CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Privatization has eliminated 30 years of pay equity gains and has put BC…
A Return to Wage Discrimination
Pay Equity Losses Through the Privatization of Health Care Download 220.05 KB26 pages Attachments French Summary: A Return to Wage Discrimination…
CCPA and SFU win prestigious research grant
Project involving university and community researchers to study economic security in BC (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC) and Simon Fraser University are launching a five-year project that…
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