261 search results for
Economic inequality
Recommendation 27:
Increasing access to in-person services for income assistance and disability applicants.
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Recommendation 3:
Increased state enforcement alone cannot eliminate violence against Indigenous women and girls because structural violence is connected to individual acts of male violence. A comprehensive national-level integrated action plan to eliminate violence against Indigenous women and girls must address all the socio-economic factors impacting Indigenous women’s, girls’, trans and two-spirit’s safety including equitable access and self-determination over land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, and physical, mental, sexual and spiritual health.
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Recommendation 55:
Increase the province-wide stock of non-market rental, public and co-op housing, with 20,000 new units per year starting in 2021.
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Recommendation 54:
Increase the province-wide stock of all forms of social housing.
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Recommendation 3:
Increase the number of Seniors Subsidized Housing Units with a particular focus on rural B.C. where the overall supply of rental accommodation for seniors is most challenging.
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Recommendation 63:
Increase the number of paid work experience programs that build on youth’s lived expertise. For example, the youth-led “Light the Way Youth Homelessness Conference.”
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Recommendation 75:
Increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by June 2019 for all workers with no exemptions, and increase it annually till it reaches a living wage that matches the cost of living.
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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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Recommendation 15:
Increase investment in both capital and operating costs for shelter-rate housing, including through the Empty Homes tax, borrowing, reducing the annual police budget, and taxing homes worth over $5,000,000. Invest specifically in permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.
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Recommendation 61:
Increase funding for family law legal aid, raise the income cut-off for eligibility, and significantly increase the number of hours available per case.
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