Comment: Six big changes could put an end to poverty

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Comment by Guy Dauncey from today’s Times Colonist:

Sarah Petrescu’s series made a valuable contribution to public awareness about the realities that people living in poverty have to live with every day. Her final part, Big Problem, Small Changes, laid out small changes that could help, such as raising income assistance rates. It’s a big problem, however, so here are some big changes that could contribute to a future in which there is no poverty at all, except the voluntary simplicity of those who want to live with a minimal footprint on the Earth….

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