Iglika Ivanova did the math: it costs less to reduce poverty than to allow it to continue and pay for the consequences: poor health, lower literacy, poor school performance for children, more crime, and greater stress. Reducing poverty and easing human suffering is the right thing to do, and it's also a sensible economic choice.
Read The Cost of Poverty in BC and watch and share our 3-minute video, What is poverty costing BC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVo
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