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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Universal basic services
Higher education
Recommendation 42: Provide the first year of all college and trade programs tuition-free.-
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Universal basic services
Higher education
Recommendation 43: Address the rise of precarious work in higher education.-
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 44: We endorse the $10-a-day Child Care Plan and recommend government cease income-testing and continue to build and support our emergent $10-a-day plan for B.C.-
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 45: Consider the disproportionate impact of precarious labour within the child care sector on women and implement a provincial wage grid for early child educators to raise wages, and address recruitment and retention.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 58: Lower the federal and provincial voting age in Canada from 18 to 16.-
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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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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 75: Implement interventions to reduce and eliminate precarious work in B.C.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 76: End wage discrimination against farm workers and implement the general minimum wage as a wage floor for all piece-rate farm workers, as recommended by the Fair Wages Commission in 2018.-
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