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Recommendation 2:
Defund City Engineering & Police Budgets and redirect funds currently allocated to Street Sweeps, in order to redistribute resources and funds for cleaning to local organizations and individuals who reside in affected areas.
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Recommendation 3:
Decision makers should engage women and those facing gender-based marginalization, women-led organizations and equity-seeking groups in their recovery planning. Please offer us direct, accessible ways to provide input and invite us directly into your conversations.
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Recommendation 21:
Create universal access to post-secondary education by eliminating tuition fees.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 19:
Contribute funding to establish a universal, cost-shared, healthy school food program for all K–12 students that is respectful of local contexts, connected to community and curriculum, health-promoting and sustainable.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 70:
Continued access to phones, computers, and personal-protective equipment in order to maintain a quicker recovery response in the event of a second wave.
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Recommendation 2:
Continue with annual increases to the carbon tax while ensuring this taxation incorporates low income transfers that sufficiently offset any negative impacts to low income households or individuals (such as an expansion of the low-income carbon tax credit).
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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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Recommendation 27:
Conduct an analysis and identify best practices in poverty prevention and reduction programs for the purpose of enhancing and expanding them to be delivered in other parts of the province. Friendship Centres are the organization of choice for Indigenous people seeking supports and are uniquely positioned to play a key role in addressing the issue with more support. Greater consistency in the types of programming/services offered by Friendship Centres will ensure that clients can access the same services regardless of where they live.
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Recommendation 90:
Comprehensive federal, provincial, and municipal Indigenous Housing policy framework to specifically address Indigenous homelessness.
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Recommendation 12:
Commit to developing an Indigenous specific poverty reduction plan, within a decolonizing anti-racist lens, complete with specific goals, targets, timelines and accountabilities.
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