The “2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card” is the 26th annual publication of its kind released by the First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society. The 2022 iteration was produced in collaboration with SPARC BC and Campaign 2000. This report card contains 25 child poverty reduction recommendations which are directed at provincial and federal governments and focus on matters of economic inequality and investing in lowering barriers through universal programs.
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Tax fairness and income support
Recommendation 1: Establish a permanent Fair Wages Commission to examine issues related to low wages and precarity in BC to advise government on strategies that bring workers above the poverty line. Make sure all workers in BC are covered by the hourly minimum wage by the end of 2023.-
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Tax fairness and income support
Recommendation 2: Governments at all levels should ensure their direct and contract employees are paid a living wage that allows them to meet their basic needs, properly support their children and avoid chronic financial stress.-
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Recommendation 7: Enhance Employment Insurance to expand access, duration, and level of benefits to reduce inequity for lower-income workers and prevent and reduce child and family poverty, including establishing a minimum benefit floor.-
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Targeted initiatives for groups over-represented in poverty data
Recommendation 13: Intensify efforts to help immigrants and refugees adjust to life in Canada by enhancing employment assistance, removing long-standing barriers to foreign-trained professionals accessing jobs in their field, making more language training with child care available, and improving employment standards and human rights protections and enforcement.-
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