http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/8875/0 en http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/sudbury-coalition-against-poverty-demands-local-mp/16884 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/scaplarson-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="Members of the Sudbury Coalition Agaisnt Poverty visiting the office of MPP Rick Bartolucci. (Photo by Larson Heinonen)" width="300" height="225" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear">Ontario&rsquo;s hourly minimum wage was started in 1965 at $1.00. If it had kept up as a percentage of the GDP per capita that it was then, today it would be at $18.93. Instead it is $10.25, an amount that leaves way too many people living below the poverty line. </div><p><a href="http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/sudbury-coalition-against-poverty-demands-local-mp/16884" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/sudbury-coalition-against-poverty-demands-local-mp/16884#comments Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty Labour #14now s-cap Sudbury Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:57:33 +0000 Christy Knockleby 16884 at http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca