[news] Campbell's Welfare Cuts End Up Costing Billions of Dollars

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Monte Paulsen - May 1, 2008

Provincial spending on housing and health care has exploded during [British Columbia's] Premier Gordon Campbell's second term, and a pair of recent reports suggest that a large part of this ongoing spending may be a direct result of the BC Liberals' 2002 cuts to welfare spending..."We are paying more,"..."But we're paying in different ways. We're paying more through health care...[T]hrough the justice system. We're paying more through all the demands on community services."  


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