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Article - How BC Trimmed 107,000 People from Welfare Rolls
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Chrystal Ocean <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:22:19 -0400
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How BC Trimmed 107,000 People from Welfare Rolls:
Some got jobs. Red tape, death likely knocked out far more.

By Andrew MacLeod
Published: August 18, 2005

It was almost like Dave Nash was trying to prove Premier Gordon Campbell
wrong. Nash, an affable Victoria activist, was a long-term welfare recipient
who was expected to work. But he didn't leave welfare for a job. In October,
2003, Nash died at the age of 55.

Campbell and a succession of human resources ministers under him during the
BC Liberals’ first mandate - Murray Coell, Stan Hagen and Susan Brice - have
bragged that the rapidly shrinking welfare caseload is a result of a booming
economy and people moving off welfare and into jobs.

But as it turns out, Nash wasn't the only person to leave the welfare rolls
via the morgue.

The month he died, he was just one of 161 people who went out that way,
according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Between June 2002 and January 2005, a period of 32 months, 6,065 people on
welfare died...

Full article: http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2005/08/18/WelfareRolls/

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Chrystal Ocean, Coordinator
Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
www.wise-bc.org

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