Welfare cases skyrocket in Vancouver

Vancouver has shared it's countless amounts of problems and poverty throughout the years, but more than 10,000 British Colombians has applied for welfare, and a helping hand just to get by. Since the last fall, the recession has created a countless amounts predicaments that have troubled the Lower Mainland and its population of 2,524,113 million residents.
Families with children and multi incomes were hit the hardest, the number of two-parent families able to work have received an income assistance increase of 75 percent between September and March. At the same time 57 percent of hard working males with children have also increased their percentage of welfare assistance in the past year. The major problem counts the children of these hardworking parents that are constantly looking for a better quality of life, but this struggle can affect the children, their education, and hit their experiences by a long shot, “Some people grow up in a welfare home and they get used to it.” Studies have showed the outcomes of struggles in Vancouver, which the percentage of the unemployed after the economy has fixed itself to stay high, but the government ensures the people that times have changed.“You might think we’re going to see that again, but the policy now is much more oriented toward getting people off welfare and into the work force,” Riddell said. “As long as that policy stance remains in place, and the economy recovers to where it was last summer, I don’t see any reason to believe rates will stay higher.”
Even with the government rising the amount of welfare that is spread around all of the citizens, the main problem of people getting back on their feet isn't as easy and probable as some government officials believe. The economy needs to boost, and if it does not, then a helping hand must come out from our newly elected government that is usually proposing a better way of life. “People who are accessing income assistance are at the end of the road. They have no savings or employment, so they’re really needing outside support,” said Melanie Hardy, manager of employment services at the Vancouver YWCA.

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