A Budget for the 99%
The 2014 Nova Scotia Alternative Provincial Budget provides a blueprint and lays out more than 99 ways that our government can improve the province for all of us—including how we can begin addressing income inequality and build a strong and more prosperous province where more of us share in that prosperity.
This year’s alternative budget is the culmination of a collaborative effort involving more than 40 individuals from academia, the non-profit sector and labour organizations.
For more reading, see Nova Scotia: We Have Everything We Need to Succeed, by Larry Haiven. This blog post is a concluding piece to this year’s Alternative Provincial Budget, and addresses some of the dominant negative discourse about Nova Scotia from pundits in certain sectors of the province.