May 2016, United Way Fraser Valley was honoured to receive certification as the Fraser Valley’s fifth Living Wage Employer.

CBC News: Living wage for Metro Vancouver families drops for first time in 8 years

Province: Guest Column: Fed's new child benefit helps lower living wage

News Kamloops: Child benefit cited in living wage decrease

Vancouver Sun: Vancouver still tops the list for residents needing the highest living wage

24 Hours: Living wage drop credited to PM's policies

Info News: Living wage for young Kamloops families decreases

News1130: Hourly wage needed to cover basic costs for some has dropped

BC Business: Cost of raising a family in BC drops for the first time ever

Vancity Buzz: Metro Vancouver living wage decreases for the first time in 8 years

Agassiz Harrison Observer / Chiliwack Times: Living wage in Fraser Valley drops to $16.28 an hour

CKNW News: Vancouver's living wage drops for the first time in 8 years

Kamloops This Week: Kamloops living wage: $17.21 per hour

Prince George Now: Living wage in BC drops for first time in 8 years

Radio-Canada: Grand Vancouver : le salaire recommandé pour vivre revu à la baisse

Province: Metro Vancouver residents still need highest 'living wage' in B.C.

News 880 AM: Vancouver's living wage drops for the first time in eight years

250 News: Living Wage Rate Slips in North Central BC

CBC Radio - On the Coast: Living wage not achievable for all jobs in B.C.: career counsellor

(Vancouver - April 27, 2016) A report released today finds that the wage needed to cover the costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver is $20.64 per hour. This is the 2016 Metro Vancouver living wage, the hourly wage that two working parents with two young children must earn to meet their basic expenses (including rent, child care, food and transportation), once government taxes, credits, deductions and subsidies have been taken into account. 

September 2016:

CBC News Vancouver at 6: Vancouver considers the living wage (17:38-22:38)

Global News Morning BC: BIV: City of Vancouver looks to implement living wage (at 1:03 min)

Vancouver Sun: What’s a living wage, anyway?

CTV News: Vancouver approves $20.64 'living wage' for all staff

CBC News: Fair pay or playing politics? Vancouver city council debates living wage

Province: Almost no one to earn more under Vancouver's living wage policy

CKNW AM 980: Groups campaign for Vancouver living wage to reach all city worker

CBC Early Edition: Geoff Meggs on living wage

CBC BC Almanac: UBC Sauder School's Mark Thompson on #LivingWage

Vancouver Metro News: Vancouver one step closer to being a Living Wage Employer

Georgia Straight: City of Vancouver estimates it will cost more than #1 million to lift contractors’ employees to a living wage

Vancouver 24 Hrs: Vancouver says $1.2 million per year needed to implement living wage

July 2015:

Province: Joey Hartman and Adrienne Montani: Vancouver’s ‘living wage’ plan will help tackle poverty

Vancouver Sun: Op-ed: Living wage proposal applauded

Metro News: Vancouver council unanimously votes to become living wage employer

CKNW: City of Vancouver paves way to become a living wage employer

Vancouver Sun: Gregor Robertson calls for Vancouver to become a living wage employer

Georgia Straight: Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson puts forward living-wage motion

Vancouver Metro News: Vancouver mayor wants city to become living wage employer

Province: Vancouver mayor commits to living-wage thrust

CKNW News Talk 980: Mayor Gregor Robertson wants City of Vancouver to be living wage employer

News 1130: Vancouver’s mayor wants to make City Hall a living wage employer

AM 730: UPDATED: Mayor Gregor Robertson wants City of Vancouver to be living wage employer

Huffington Post: Mayor Gregor Robertson wants City of Vancouver to be living wage city

Human Resource Management Online: Calls for west coast city to become living wage employer

Vancity Buzz: Mayor Robertson want City of Vancouver to become a ‘living wage’ employer

Vancouver Sun: Douglas Todd: Metro Vancouver Alliance builds bridges and makes things happen

The Living Wage for Families Campaign is a poverty reduction strategy to address, in particular, child and family poverty in Canada. 

Sustainability is the core value at Village Cleaners, a garment cleaning company and Living Wage Employer located in False Creek in the former Olympic Village.

It has been an incredibly busy year for the Living Wage for Families Campaign. We thank all our supporters and employers who have helped grow the living wage movement and reduce low-wage poverty across BC.