Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
Tag: social assistance
People on social assistance need our help during the pandemic
Letter to the members of New Brunswick's COVID-19 Cabinet Committee: Blaine Higgs, Kevin Vickers, David Coon and Kris Austin The ...
How my disability led to a life of uncertainty in New Brunswick
For many, marriage is a happy time full of celebrations and new beginnings. Today, I am going to tell you ...
New Brunswick needs to better support social assistance recipients in COVID-19 crisis: Common Front for Social Justice
Letter to Premier Higgs and members of the all-party cabinet committee on COVID-19. The New Brunswick Common Front for Social ...
Common Front: $5.4 million just does not cut it for social assistance
The provincial budget unveiled yesterday is proposing to put $5.4 million toward increasing the basic rates of citizens living on ...
Common Front campaign targets myths, prejudices about people living in poverty
A campaign targeting the most common myths and prejudices about people living in poverty is being launched today (January 27, ...
Editorial: Social justice in New Brunswick requires an increase in social assistance rates
The NB Media Co-op publishes news and opinion articles not covered in the mainstream, commercial media in the province. Many ...
Campaign targets myths about people living in poverty
“The widespread nature of prejudices and misinformation about people living in poverty is a major obstacle to reducing and eliminating ...
A guaranteed annual income – A letter from New Brunswick’s future #13
August 30, 2030 (the Nashwaak River Valley, NB) Dear Friends, I sit in my garden on a weekday morning listening ...
Changing policies and perceptions: Eradicating poverty in New Brunswick
As of 2016, an alarming 19.9% of Fredericton’s population was living in poverty. Poverty is a difficult concept to define. ...
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