Download or read book What We Heard About Poverty in B C written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We heard about the need to promote social inclusion and to foster a culture of dignity and respect for marginalized people and groups. [...] Tackling poverty is part of building a better British Columbia - a province where people have the chance to get the skills they need to succeed, access to good jobs and services they can count on, and a province committed to reconciliation. [...] WHAT WE HEARD ABOUT POVERTY iN B. C. 11 The opinions, ideas and solutions captured in this report are diverse, and represent the sincere reflections of the people who took the time to share them with us. [...] They are the words of the people and organizations who attended a community meeting, wrote a policy submission, phoned or emailed to join the conversation and shared their ideas about reducing poverty in B. C. The many voices represented in this report will help guide government as the first poverty reduction strategy is developed in hopes of breaking the cycle of poverty affecting so many British [...] ENGAGING WITH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES The Province is focused on building a true and lasting vision of reconciliation through a cross-government commitment to adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action.
Download or read book What We Heard about Poverty in B C written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What We Heard About Poverty in B C written by Shane Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not Enough written by Canadian Council for Social Development and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of this study's publication in 1984, 26 per cent--2.3 million--Canadian households lived below the poverty line; over 100,000 families subsisted on less than $5000 a year; social assistance rates provided about half of what a family required to survive. Not Enough: The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty in Canada, the report of a national task force on poverty, asserts that "serious deprivation does exist in Canada." Not Enough provides a range of detailed information, charts and graphs dealing with the extent, depth and length of poverty in Canada in the 1980s. The report is especially attentive to the regional distribution of poverty, to its increasing "feminization", and to the difficulties disabled people face maintaining their dignity in the face of chronically restricted budgets. Not Enough is a detailed snapshot of the recent past of a crippling social problem that remains with us today.
Download or read book Basic Income and a Just Society written by David A. Green and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As governments struggle to adapt half-century-old income and social support programs to new needs and realities, some are calling for the introduction of a basic income guarantee for working-age Canadians. But is a basic income really the best policy response to poverty, precarious work, and unemployment? Is it the best way to build a just and inclusive society? Basic Income and a Just Society provides a comprehensive evaluation of basic income and its application as a primary social policy tool. Drawing on extensive research and analysis produced for the British Columbia Expert Panel on Basic Income, combined with pan-Canadian data and current evidence, leading scholars examine the various claims made for and against a basic income. They assess its potential to reduce poverty and improve social outcomes, as well as the costs associated with implementing such a program in Canada and how it would interact with existing social programs. In examining the key arguments advanced by proponents of a basic income, contributors take a hard look at Canada’s social safety net and its strengths and weaknesses, proposing a different path forward – one that entails a full paradigm shift in social policy and rests on providing the bases of self- and social respect to all Canadians.
Download or read book The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty written by David P. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The " Fact Book on Poverty " clearly indicates certain groups in our society are especially vulnerable to poverty. They include the old, the long-term unemployed, and female heads of households.
Download or read book Poverty in Canada and the United States written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Path out of Poverty Helping BC Income Assistance Recipients Upgrade Their Education written by Shauna Jane Butterwick and published by Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives. This book was released on 2006 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; Methodology; Policy Context; 2002: The Context Changes; Best Practices; Access; Retention; Making a Difference; After the Cuts; Conclusion; Lessons Learned; Recommendations; Endnotes; References.
Download or read book Child Poverty and Income Inequality in British Columbia written by Stephen Arlington Kerstetter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Download or read book Poverty Reduction Plan for British Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming School Food Politics around the World written by Jennifer E. Gaddis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to successfully challenge and transform public school-food programs to emphasize care, justice, and sustainability, with insights from eight countries across the Global North and South. School food programs are about more than just feeding kids. They are a form of community care and a policy tool for advancing education, health, justice, food sovereignty, and sustainability. Transforming School Food Politics around the World illustrates how everyday people from a diverse range of global contexts have successfully challenged and changed programs that fall short of these ideals. Editors Jennifer Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert highlight the importance of global and local struggles to argue that the transformative potential of school food hinges on valuing the gendered labor that goes into caring for, feeding, and educating children. Through accessible and inspiring essays, Transforming School Food Politics around the World shows politics in action. Chapter contributors include youths, mothers, teachers, farmers, school nutrition workers, academics, lobbyists, policymakers, state employees, nonprofit staff, and social movement activists. Drawing from historical and contemporary research, personal experiences, and collaborations with community partners, they provide readers with innovative strategies that can be used in their own efforts to change school food policy and systems. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage to reimagine school food as part of the infrastructure of daily life, arguing that it can and should be at the vanguard of building a new economy rooted in care for people and the environment.
Download or read book British Columbia Poverty Progress Profile written by Canada Without Poverty and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policies of Exclusion Poverty and Health written by WISE Society (B.C.) and published by Duncan, BC : WISE Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty and Inequality in the Capital Region of British Columbia a Report of the Capital Urban Poverty Project written by Marge Reitsma-Street and published by University of Victoria, Faculty of Human and Social Development. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
Download or read book B C Poverty Reduction Strategy Submission written by British Columbia. Representative for Children and Youth and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
