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What about a living wage calculation for a single person?
The Living Wage for Families Campaign is a poverty reduction strategy to address, in particular, child and family poverty in Canada. Activists and policy researchers alike have agreed that a family of four provides a good representation of all the possible costs incurred by the majority of family types, from […]
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Living wage campaign’s first webinar was a huge success
Webinar: Calculating the living wage for local communities On September 9, 2014, more than 60 people from across BC and Canada tuned in to the Living Wage for Families Campaign’s first webinar to learn how to calculate the annual living wage in their community. With Catherine Ludgate of the Living […]
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2014 living wage calculation: Parents need two minimum wage jobs each to support a family in Metro Vancouver
A report released on April 29, 2014, finds that the wage needed to cover the costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver is $20.10 per hour. This is the 2014 Metro Vancouver living wage rate, the hourly wage that two working parents with two young children must earn to […]
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