It is one of those publications that few media outlets will report on, and even fewer British Columbians will read, but BC Stats just released the latest version of its Local Area Economic Dependencies, updated based on 2006 census data. This publication basically asks where the income in various BC communities comes from. In many [...]
Entries Tagged as 'public sector'
Following the money in BC communities
March 12th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · Economy, Employment & labour, Environment, resources & sustainability, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Provincial budget & finance, Taxes
Tags: EI·employment·forestry·public sector·transfer payments·welfare
Government wage freeze damages economy
February 20th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · Economy, Provincial budget & finance
One more sign as to how out of touch the February 17 BC Budget is with the rest of the world. The BC Budget includes a two year wage freeze for people who get their pay from the provincial government. The Budget documents say: No funding is included in the fiscal plan for the next [...]
Tags: budget·public sector
The Budget: A Determinant of Health
February 19th, 2009 · Colleen Fuller · Comments Off · Health care
I know this budget is supposed to be good news for health, but I want to argue here that the exact opposite is true. We’ve had a lot of budgets like this in B.C., so this one is in keeping with its right wing predecessors. During the 1980s, for example, the never-ending Social Credit government [...]
Tags: budget·David Gordon·health care costs·living wage·poverty·public sector·service cuts·Social Credit
