[Wamvan] Fwd: [rtrc-bc] Jagrup Brar starts month of Welfare Challenge

[Tami Starlight]

Hopi new year people!

tami

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From: Bill Hopwood <bill50 at vcn.bc.ca>
Date: Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:49 AM
Subject: [rtrc-bc] Jagrup Brar starts month of Welfare Challenge
To: rtrc-bc at povnet.org


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*The MLA Welfare Challenge*

Can you Live on $610 a month?****

Raise the Rates: www.raisetherates.org****

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*Media Advisory*

*December 31, 2011*

*For Immediate Release*

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*MLA JAGRUP BRAR TO BEGIN WELFARE CHALLENGE JANUARY 1ST *****

MLA Jagrup Brar will start the New Year by spending a month living on
welfare rate of $610. This is to cover all his expenses including housing,
food, transit and personal hygiene for all of January. The experience will
expose Brar to the realities of poverty and challenges navigating the
welfare system - the first being that welfare offices are not open on
holidays. ****

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Come to the news conference to learn how Brar plans to start the month and
what’s planned for the first week of the *Welfare Challenge.*  ****

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*Time: 11: 00 a.m., Sunday, January 1, 2012*****

*Place: Surrey Central Skytrain Station -* west side of ****City
Parkway****, near
the bottom of the elevator.****

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Raise the Rates* (*http://www.raisetherates.org/home2.html) is a coalition
of community groups that want governments to reduce poverty in ****British
Columbia****. Raise the Rates issued the *Welfare Challenge* to B.C. MLA’s
to experience first-hand what life is like living on welfare in B.C.****

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Regular updates on the *Welfare Challenge* will be posted to:
www.mlaonwelfare.com ****

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*Media Contacts: *

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Raise the Rates:             **Bill Hopwood**:  604 738-1653 or 778 686 5293
 (cell), bill50 at vcn.bc.ca****

                                      Jean Swanson:  604 729 2380****

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Jagrup Brar's Office:       Ruby Bhandal 778-878-1293 Ruby.Bhandal at leg.bc.ca
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*25 Years since Emery Barnes – Where are We Now?*

*Justice not Charity*

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