Tag Archive: spending cuts

British Medical Journal links social spending cuts to increased mortality

Jun 29, 2010

An article and an editorial in this week’s British Medical Journal outline the very high cost of cutting social programs. The article’s authors look at social spending in the OECD and find changes in social spending directly related to changes in mortality. Even more, they find the impact of social spending on health to be… View Article

BC’s public sector: among the smallest in the country

Feb 25, 2010

By Iglika Ivanova

Have you heard pundits say that BC’s public sector is too big or “bloated”? It’s an argument frequently used as an excuse to advocate for government spending cuts, but is it true? You may want to take a look at the numbers for yourself. The CCPA just released a short report on the size of… View Article

On tough times and priorities

Sep 10, 2009

By Iglika Ivanova

The BC government cannot afford $130,000 for the budget of BC School Sports, a volunteer organization which organizes sporting events for students. This is likely to affect 100,000 high school athletes across the province whose meets and competitions will be canceled. “It’s not business as usual right now,” explained Education Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, quoted in… View Article

Take Two: BC Budget 2009 September Update (Notes from Marc and Iglika)

Sep 1, 2009

By Marc Lee

The September BC Budget is a new look at a budget most have come to see as a fake. February’s budget was not passed through the legislature due to the May election, and up to E-Day the government maintained the fiction that it had a small-ish deficit of just under half a billion dollars. Since… View Article