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Job creation alone will not solve BC’s poverty problem

April 29th, 2010 · · Comments Off · Economy, Employment & labour, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Provincial budget & finance

Whenever he’s confronted with questions about BC’s record high child poverty rates or by the growing income inequality in the province, our Premier maintains that the best social policy is a job. In fact, reducing the costs of doing business in BC seems to be this government’s chief economic strategy. Consider the HST, for example, [...]

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