Poverty Reduction in British Columbia?: How “The Best Place on Earth” Keeps People Poorest
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Abstract
Using the example of B.C., this article shows how combined federal and provincial policies prevent economic growth from benefiting all but upper-income people. This article examines the unequal growth of earnings across the country, including the differences in distribution by gender. It then examines the decidedly low-wage policy the B.C. Liberal Party adopted soon after it was elected in 2001. This included a minimum wage that did not change for 10 years, a wide variety of employment standard changes that undercut both income security and decent working conditions, and privatization measures. This strategy affected the breadth of poverty among wage earners, with the majority of families in poverty having at least one person who was working in the paid labour force. The depth of poverty has been affected by deficit reduction strategies that lowered the income of those in poverty who could not work. This began with the NDP government in the late 1990s, but was accelerated by the Liberal government. The final part of this paper indicates the kind of poverty reduction plan that would begin to change B.C.’s distinction as the worst province on poverty issues in Canada. Partant de l'exemple de la Colombie-Britannique, cet article explique comment l'association des politiques federales et provinciales aboutit au fait que la croissance economique ne profite qu'aux personnes ayant les revenus les plus eleves. Il passe en revue la croissance inegale de la remuneration dans tout le pays, notamment les differences de repartition selon le sexe. Il etudie ensuite la politique sur les bas salaires que le Parti liberal de la Colombie-Britannique a adoptee peu apres son election en 2001. Cette politique s'est accompagnee d’une stagnation du salaire minimum pendant 10 ans, de toute une serie de changements apportes aux normes d'emploi qui ont nui tant a la securite du revenu qu’aux conditions de travail, et de mesures de privatisation. Cette strategie a accentue la generalisation de la pauvrete chez les salaries, la plupart des foyers pauvres comptant au moins une personne touchant un revenu d’emploi. Les strategies de reduction du deficit ont aggrave le phenomene de la pauvrete en faisant baisser le revenu des personnes pauvres incapables de travailler. Cette tendance a ete amorcee par le gouvernement NPD a la fin des annees 1990, mais s'est acceleree sous le gouvernement liberal. La derniere partie de cet article presente le type de programme de reduction de la pauvrete qui pourrait aider la Colombie-Britannique a se debarrasser de son etiquette de province canadienne ayant les politiques de lutte contre la pauvrete les plus inadequates.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".