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On Monday we're releasing the 2025 Living Wages Report for NL, NS & PEI. This report details regionally-specific living wages & highlights the significant challenges workers & families face as housing, food, and other essential costs continue to rise. #NSpoli #NLpoli #peipoli

@peggynash is coming to Halifax! Come meet her on Tuesday & learn about CCPA-NS' research-backed policy recommendations for living wages, low-wage workers, temporary agricultural workers, migrant/immigrant women, and child protection workers in Nova Scotia. #NSpoli

@peggynash is coming to Halifax! Join us this Tuesday to meet Nash & hear our research-backed policy recommendations for living wages, low-wage workers, temporary agricultural workers, migrant/immigrant women, & child protection workers in Nova Scotia. #NSpoli

As the tariff crisis continues, we must demand that decision-makers prioritize policies that leave no one behind. Join us & @NS_Labour May 8 at 7pm for a webinar: Workers, Tariffs & Interprovincial Trade in Atlantic Canada us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #NSpoli #NBpoli #NLpoli #PEIpoli

Registration isn’t required unless you would like reminders and a calendar invitation with the Zoom link for the event. Register here: forms.gle/Jn6zEEQ9kSVekA…

Join the CCPA-NS in partnership with the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour on May 8th at 7 pm AST for an insightful webinar about interprovincial trade barriers and the tariff crisis. Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #NSpoli #NLpoli #PEIpoli #NBpoli

“We're losing that more affordable housing stock faster than we are building new units,” said Dr. Catherine Leviten-Reid in an interview with @CBCNS : cbc.ca/news/canada/no… #NSpoli

CCPA-NS is growing! We’re looking for a part-time Research Assistant to conduct quantitative research and analysis of social and economic issues. Interested? Apply by 6pm AT on Mon. Mar. 17: ccpa.bamboohr.com/careers/43?sou…

Do you want to better understand & respond to the NS budget? Will you be attending the budget lock-up? If you answered yes to any of these questions, register & join us on Feb 12th from 3:30-5 pm to share your hopes for the NS budget: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #NSpoli

The newly announced minimum wage increases are not enough. Minimum wage workers deserve a living wage. Tune into @globalhalifax tonight at 6pm to hear Dr. Christine Saulnier discuss. #nspoli #minimumwage #LivingWage

NEW BLOG! Check out our response to the upcoming minimum wage increases. These increases are significantly lower than what's necessary for minimum wage workers to make ends meet across the province: policyalternatives.ca/news-research/… #NSpoli #minimumwage

Outlets across the Maritimes are covering the Child and Family Poverty Report Card, which records the highest single-year increase in child poverty since 1989 & provides recommendations for eradicating child & family poverty:policyalternatives.ca/news-research/… #NSpoli #childpoverty

Child and family poverty in PEI is rising despite federal promises to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000. A new report documents the increasing child and family poverty rates on PEI and how they are correlated with intersectional factors: campaign2000.ca/ending-child-p…

New 2024 NS Child & Family Poverty Report Card records a historic single-year increase in child poverty, explores intersectional factors correlated with child poverty rates, & provides recommendations to address this troubling trend: policyalternatives.ca/news-research/… #NSpoli #childpoverty

Atlantic Canadian media outlets are covering our Contradictions in Care report, which describes struggles faced by social workers in the DCS & provides recommendations to improve the NS welfare system for children & families: policyalternatives.ca/news-research/… #NSpoli #childprotection

Affordable Housing & Homelessness Working Group and the Strait Richmon Housing Matters Coalition partnered with Cape Breton University to publish a new report showing a 72% increase in homelessness across eastern Nova Scotia since 2021: rentalhousingresearch.ca/wp-content/upl… #NSpoli

Less than 1 week to get your tickets to the CCPA-NS Gala Fundraiser! Enjoy great music, great people & great food while supporting bold & progressive research. Sales close Nov 4 at 12 pm. Get yours at policyalternatives.ca/CCPANS2024Gala #NSPoli #NLPoli #PEIpoli #NBpoli

This builds on the work we released by Dr Bejean a few months ago on the seasonal agricultural worker program in NS. #MigrantWorkers policyalternatives.ca/publications/r…

Researchers entering into an agreement with the Mexican government to collaborate on projects looking into the welfare of seasonal workers & ways to improve working conditions at sites in Atlantic Canada. Imp work led by one of our RAs, Raluca Bejean. dal.ca/news/media/med…