|
Imagine…a vibrant and sustainable region, where everyone lives in a safe and decent home and is able to care for themselves, their families and their community. The Quality of Life CHALLENGE is diverse community partners working together to generate long-lasting solutions that prevent and reduce poverty in BC’s Capital Region.
The Quality of Life CHALLENGE:
- works collaboratively and strategically towards shared goals
- includes people living on low income
- fosters corporate and personal leadership and responsibility
- recognizes, links and builds on all efforts
The three priorities include increasing sustainable incomes, reducing costs of living, and creating learning opportunities.
For more information on the Quality of Life CHALLENGE, visit their website here.
Calculating a Living Wage
Employers in British Columbia can now see the difference providing extra holiday days, extended health care or other benefits can make to their employees. They can calculate “what if” scenarios based on increasing benefits using online living wage calculator that helps employers assess how benefits affect the living wage. The calculator is a project of Living Wage for Families. A living wage is the wage required to keep a family with two children and two working parents above the poverty line.
Victoria’s Quality of Life CHALLENGE expresses the idea of a living wage as an affordability index, as the index reflects the costs of living in a community. The CHALLENCE recently released their 2010 Affordability Index.
|
