Rise in poverty 'troubling'
The Vancouver Sun
14 Jun 2007

British Columbians enjoy better health and live longer than their neighbours elsewhere in the northwest. But a study of Cascadia -- the Pacific northwest region stretching from southern Alaska to northern California -- shows poverty levels in B.C. went up slightly, while they declined or levelled off in the northwest U.S. states. Child poverty levels in B.C. also went up, from just over 18 per cent in 1990 to more than 20 per cent in 2005.

"That's troubling," said Clark Williams-Derry, research director with the Sightline Institute, a non-profit think-tank based in Seattle. It also bucks the national trend in the rest of Canada, where overall poverty decreased, he said....