No immediate wage clawback reform; working poor left in lurch
The Common Front for Social Justice is criticizing the slow pace of the Higgs government’s approach to the province’s social ...
Tag: social assistance
Time for New Brunswick to end policies that impoverish people with disabilities
It has been over a year since the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) was introduced to support many Canadians across ...
Common Front visits MLAs to demand action on the wage clawback affecting social assistance recipients
On May 3, members of the Common Front for Social Justice delivered letters to half of New Brunswick's Members of ...
Growing support to end New Brunswick’s punitive wage clawback for social assistance recipients
Support is growing for changes to a provincial policy that penalizes people who try to get off social assistance by ...
People on social assistance need our help during the pandemic
Letter to the members of New Brunswick's COVID-19 Cabinet Committee: Blaine Higgs, Kevin Vickers, David Coon and Kris Austin The ...
How my disability led to a life of uncertainty in New Brunswick
For many, marriage is a happy time full of celebrations and new beginnings. Today, I am going to tell you ...
New Brunswick needs to better support social assistance recipients in COVID-19 crisis: Common Front for Social Justice
Letter to Premier Higgs and members of the all-party cabinet committee on COVID-19. The New Brunswick Common Front for Social ...
Common Front: $5.4 million just does not cut it for social assistance
The provincial budget unveiled yesterday is proposing to put $5.4 million toward increasing the basic rates of citizens living on ...
Common Front campaign targets myths, prejudices about people living in poverty
A campaign targeting the most common myths and prejudices about people living in poverty is being launched today (January 27, ...
Social justice in New Brunswick requires an increase in social assistance rates
The NB Media Co-op publishes news and opinion articles not covered in the mainstream, commercial media in the province. Many ...