The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s “Blueprint for Justice” released in 2020 describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities and revealed the depth and breadth of the durable policy and investments needed to truly reduce poverty and inequality in B.C. It describes the concrete actions needed to ensure nobody is left behind during the pandemic and beyond it, centering its recommendations on four principles: economic security, universal basic services, equity and climate justice. The full blueprint can be found here.
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Recommendation 10: Address the needs of those most likely to be living in poverty and impacted by intersecting colonialism, racism, ableism, heterosexism, transphobia, and gender inequality.-
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Equity
Recommendation 15: Guarantee access to income and disability assistance for all regardless of immigration and citizenship status.-
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Equity
Recommendation 23: Designation of ASL/LSQ as official languages.-
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Universal basic services
General health care
Recommendation 26: Provide a comprehensive program to supply assistive devices and personal equipment such as wheelchairs, mobility aids, communication aids, and respiratory devices for people living with those respective disabilities.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 72: Continue the $300 increase to income and disability assistance rates and further raise the rates to the Market Basket Measure.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 73: Increase the earnings exemptions for those on income and disability assistance and end the claw back of unearned income.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 74: Allow income assistance recipients to attend post-secondary institutions and retain full assistance benefits and expand the Single Parents Employment Initiative (SPEI) to include higher education.-
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