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1. B.C. welfare payments are adequate; For the most part, they line up with basic needs; where they don't, for employable singles, there is a reason

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Surrey MLA Jagrup Brar's attempt to spend January living on the $610 welfare rate for a single employable individual has succeeded in getting people talking about the adequacy of welfare. Brar's actions are in ...

2. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

   In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...