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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Poverty and economic inequality
Universal basic services
General health care
Recommendation 24: Provide universal coverage of basic dental care within our health care system.-
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Recommendation 34: Provide publicly funded, universally available, high-speed at-home Internet access for all in B.C. regardless of immigration or citizenship status.-
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Recommendation 35: Address the digital divide during the pandemic and beyond and implement an initiative to provide $10-a-month high-speed at-home Internet access for all living at or below the Market Basket Measure poverty line, as well as all those accessing any form of education in B.C.-
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Recommendation 36: Provide a B.C. Technology Fund and non-repayable grants to all enrolled in the $10-a-month affordability initiative and increase digital literacy training province-wide to address online safety, security, privacy, and disinformation.-
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Recommendation 37: Implement the Indigenous Framework for Innovation and Technology to create sustainable access to digital and connected technologies for all 203 Indigenous communities in B.C., both on and off-reserve.-
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Universal basic services
K–12 education
Recommendation 38: Adequately fund K-12 education to end the need for parent fees and fundraising, ensure library, staff resources, and special needs assessment and support.-
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Universal basic services
K–12 education
Recommendation 39: Implement a national healthy school food program through the Ministry of Education and provide a healthy, free, lunch for all students in B.C.-
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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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Child care
Recommendation 46: Transfer the Child Care Branch from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the Ministry of Education.-
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