News Release: June 5, 2012
Parents and grandparents tell Dix: “We’re not begging, just asking for justice”
Raise welfare rates to a liveable level, build social housing that people on welfare and basic old age pension can afford, and stop clawing back 100% of earnings and child support payments. That’s what nine parents and one grandparent on income assistance told NDP Leader Adrian Dix and MLA Jenny Kwan today at Strathcona Community Centre.