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Economic inequality
Recommendation 16:
The provincial government should review and enhance supports to grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship care providers. The federal government should allow grandparents on CPP Disability who are raising their grandchildren to continue to receive the CPP children’s benefit after they turn 65 and remove administrative barriers to receiving the Canada Child Benefit for kinship care providers.
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Recommendation 3:
The provincial government should move more quickly to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour, ensure all workers are covered by the minimum wage and index it annually to the cost of living.
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Recommendation 1:
The provincial government should make sure all workers in BC are covered by the hourly minimum wage by the end of 2021 and establish a permanent Fair Wages Commission with research staff to examine issues related to low wages in BC and to give advice to the government on increases to the minimum wage.
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Recommendation 8:
The provincial government should index the BC Child Opportunity Benefit to inflation to ensure the value of the benefit does not erode over time.
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Recommendation 26:
The provincial government should increase investment in public health initiatives aimed to support maternal health and healthy infant development, as well as non-barriered, free, community-based programs and services for all families with young children to ensuring these supports are available throughout the province and designed to reach families experiencing poverty and other threats to their ability to thrive.
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Recommendation 6:
The provincial government should expand the post-secondary program options eligible for support under the Single Parent Employment Initiative and, in the absence of enhancements to BC’s refundable post-secondary grants, allow all those on income assistance to retain benefits while attending a post-secondary institution.
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Recommendation 22:
The provincial government should ensure K-12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequalities and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs. This includes restoring funding to school districts for special education assistants, lost programming in the arts, libraries, counsellors, school psychologists, custodial services, and deferred maintenance, among other areas that still require urgent attention in future provincial budgets. Schools need additional funds to implement the public health response measures during the pandemic.
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Recommendation 17:
The provincial government should automatically enroll all young people transitioning out of care in an income support program that meets their basic living costs.
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Recommendation 6:
The provincial government should adjust income and disability assistance rates for families with a child with disabilities to recognize the costs associated with raising a child with extra support needs.
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Recommendation 13:
The provincial government must increase program funding and support for more equitable distribution of available resources to ensure families raising children with disabilities and complex medical needs have timely, universal access everywhere in BC to a core suite of early intervention therapies; timely assessments; family respite; health, medical and in-home supports.
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