Province needs poverty plan

The lack of success in reducing child poverty in BC necessitates the implementation of a concrete poverty reduction action plan.

A plan is no guarantee that something will get done, but the lack of a plan is a certain guarantee it won’t. B.C. has one of the highest child poverty rates in Canada, a dismal record it has held for more than a decade. It is also one of only two Canadian provinces without a child-poverty reduction plan. Coincidence? Probably not.

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Source: Times Colonist