Co-Published Today: Poverty and b.c

co-published today: At 13.2 per cent, B.C.'s poverty rate is the second highest in the country says a new report Long Overdue Why B.C. Needs a Poverty Reduction Plan, co-published today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives CCPA the United Way of the Lower Mainland and the B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition, according to Vancouver Observer. Poverty rates in B.C. remain much higher than historic lows seen in the late 1970s and late 1980s. And it's not because B.C. doesn't have a poverty problem. Measures of severe hardship, such as food bank use and homelessness, have continued to climb. The report finds that approximately half of those living below the poverty line are either the working poor or children of the working poor. And working poverty rates are also on the rise. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.