ECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT - LIST OF PUBLICATIONS:

Butterwick, Shauna, with Caroline White. 2006. A Path Out of Poverty: Helping BC Income Assistance Recipients Upgrade Their Education. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy. 2005. Democratizing Public Services: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions and Implications for Health Care Reform in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy. 2006. “The Privatization of Health Care Cleaning Services in South Western British Columbia Canada: Unprecedented Government Actions, Union Responses,” in Luis MN Aguilar and Andrew Herod, eds. The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy. United Kingdom: Antipode Books Series.

Cohen, Marcy, Michael Goldberg, Nick Istvanffy, Tim Stainton, Adrienne Wasik, and Karen-Marie Woods. 2008 (February). Removing Barriers to Work: Flexible Employment Options for People With Disabilities in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy, Nancy Hall, Janice Murphy, and Alicia Priest. 2009 (April). Innovations in Community Care: From Pilot Project to System Change. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy, Janice Murphy, Kelsey Nutland and Aleck Ostry. 2005. Continuing Care Renewal or Retreat? BC Residential and Home Health Care Restructuring 2001-2004. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy, Arlene McLaren, Zena Sharman, Stuart Murray, Merrilee Hughes and Aleck Ostry. 2006. From Support to Isolation: The High Cost of BC’s Declining Home Support Services. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy, Jeremy Tate, and Jennifer Baumbusch. 2009 (April). An Uncertain Future for Seniors BC's Restructuring of Home and Community Care, 2001-2008. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, and Marcy Cohen. 2004. A Return to Wage Discrimination: Pay Equity Losses Through the Privatization of Health Care. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, and Marcy Cohen. 2004. “The Politics of Pay Equity in the BC Health Care System: The Role of Government, Multinational Corporations and Unions.” Canadian Woman Studies. Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 72-77.

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, and Marcy Cohen. 2006. “Privatization: A Strategy for Eliminating Pay Equity in Health Care,” in Kate Bezanson and Meg Luxton, eds. Rethinking Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp.117-144.

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, and Jane Pulkingham, eds. 2009. Public Policy for Women in Canada: The State, Income Security and Labour Market Issues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Cohn, Daniel. 2005. “Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Alberta and British Columbia: The Role of Sub-National Politics, 1992-2002,” Simon Fraser University Centre for Public Policy Research Working Papers Series. Vancouver: Simon Fraser University.

Fairey, David. 2005. Eroding Worker Protections: British Columbia’s New ‘Flexible’ Employment Standards. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Fairey, David. 2007. “New ‘Flexible’ Employment Standards Regulation in British Columbia.” Journal of Law and Social Policy. Vol. 21, Spring 2007, pp.91-113.

Fairey, David. 2009. “Exclusion of Unionized Workers from Employment Standards Law.” Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations. Vol. 64 no. 1, 2009. Pp 112-133.

Fairey, David, Christina Hanson, Glen MacInnes, Arlene Tigar McLaren, Gerardo Otero, Kerry Preibisch, and Mark Thompson. 2008 (June). Cultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Justicia for Migrant Workers, Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society, and BC Federation of Labour.

Goldberg, Michael, and David A. Green. 2009 (April). Understanding the Link Between Welfare Policy and the Use of Food Banks. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Goldberg, Michael, and Tim Stainton. 2009. “Analysis of British Columbia Caseload Data for Persons with a Disability (PWD) and Persons with Persistent and Multiple Barriers (PPMB) Obtained Under Freedome of Information Request.” Canadian Review of Social Policy, Vol. 60-61 (2009).

Gurstein, Penny, Stuart Murray, Anisha Datta, and Marika Albert. 2007 (October). From Public Servants to Corporate Employees: The BC Government’s Alternative Service Delivery Plan in Practice. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Irwin, John. 2004. Home Insecurity: The State of Social Housing Funding in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Tenants’ Rights Action Coalition.

Irwin, John, Stephen McBride and Tanya Strubin. 2005. Child Labour and Training Wages: Are British Columbia’s New Employment Standards Fair to Youth? Ottawa: Law Commission of Canada.

Irwin, John, Stephen McBride and Tanya Strubin. 2005. Child and Youth Employment Standards: The Experience of Young Workers Under British Columbia’s New Policy Regime. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Ivanova, Iglika. 2009. Towards an Enhanced and More Accessible Home Support System for BC's Seniors. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Kerstetter, Steve. 2006. A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Klein, Seth, and Andrea Smith. 2006. Budget Savings on the Backs of the Poor: Who Paid the Price for Welfare Benefit Cuts in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Klein, Seth, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, T Garner, Iglika Ivanova, Marc Lee, Bruce Wallace, and Margot Young. 2008 (December). A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Klein, Seth, and Jane Pulkingham. 2008 (April). Living on Welfare in BC: Experiences of Longer-Term “Expected to Work” Recipients. [] Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Raise the Rates.

Lee, Marc. 2004. New Perspectives on Income Inequality in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

MacDonald, Kelly A. 2008 (November). The Road to Aboriginal Authority Over Child and Family Services Considerations for an Effective Transition. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

MacPhail, Fiona, and Paul Bowles, eds. 2008. Pathways from Casual Work to Economic Security: Canadian and International Perspectives. Social Indicators Research (Special Issue). Netherlands: Springer.

MacPhail, Fiona, and Paul Bowles. 2008. “From Casual Work to Economic Security: The Case of British Columbia” Social Indicators Research - Special Issue: Pathways from Casual Work to Economic Security: Canadian and International Perspectives. Volume 88, No. 1, August 2008, pp. 97-114.

MacPhail, Fiona, and Paul Bowles. 2008. Improving the Economic Security of Casual Workers in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

McBride, Stephen, and John Irwin. 2009. “Deregulating Child Labour in British Columbia,” in M. Gleason, L. Paris, T. Myers and V. Strong-Boag, eds. Lost Kids: Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States. Vancouver: UBC Press.

McBride, Stephen, Kathleen McNutt and Russell A. Williams. 2007. “Tracking Neo-Liberalism: Labour Market Policies in the OECD Area,’” in Simon Lee and Stephen McBride, eds. Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance. Netherlands: Kluwer/Springer.

McBride, Stephen, Kathleen McNutt and Russell A. Williams. 2008. “Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy,” in Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride, eds. The OECD and Transnational Governance. Vancouver: UBC Press.

McBride, Stephen and Kathleen McNutt. 2007 (forthcoming). “Devolution and Neoliberalism in the Canadian Welfare State: Ideology, National and International Conditioning Frameworks, and Policy Change in British Columbia.” Global Social Policy. Sage Publications.

Morrow, Marina, with Silke Frischmuth and Alicia Johnson. 2006. Community-Based Mental Health Services in BC: Changes to Income, Employment and Housing Supports. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Morrow, Marina, Adrienne Wasik, Marcy Cohen, and Karen-Marie Elah-Perry. 2009. “Removing Barriers to Work: Building economic security for people with psychiatric disabilities.” Critical Social Policy. Vol. 29 (4): 655-676.

Murray, Stuart, and Hugh MacKenzie. 2007. Bringing Minimum Wages Above the Poverty Line. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Richards, Tim, Marcy Cohen, Seth Klein, and Deborah Littman. 2008 (September). Working for a Living Wage: Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs in Vancouver and Victoria – 2008. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Sharman, Zena, Marcy Cohen, Aleck Ostry, and Arlene McLaren. 2008. “‘We Only Own the Hours’: Discontinuity of Care in the British Columbia Home Support System.” Canadian Journal on Aging. Volume 27, Number 1 (2008), pp. 89-99.

Stinson, Jane, Nancy Pollak and Marcy Cohen. 2005. The Pains of Privatization: How Contracting Out Hurts Health Support Workers, Their Families, and Health Care. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Wallace, Bruce, Seth Klein and Marge Reitsma-Street. 2006. Denied Assistance: Closing the Front Door on Welfare in BC. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group.

Wallace, Bruce, and Tim Richards. 2008. The Rise and Fall of Welfare Time Limits in British Columbia. Victoria: Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group.

Wallace, Bruce, and Tim Richards. 2009. “Policy Resistance: The Rise and Fall of Welfare Time Limits in British Columbia,” in B. McKenzie and B. Wharf, eds. Connecting Policy to Practice in the Human Services, Third Edition. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press.

Young, Margot. 2009. “Guaranteed Annual Income: A Feminist Approach,” in Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Jane Pulkingham, eds. Public Policy for Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Young, Margot, and James P Mulvale. 2009. Possibilities and Prospects: The Debaote Over a Guaranteed Income. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Zaman, Habiba, Cecilia Diocson, and Rebecca Scott. 2007 (December). Workplace Rights for Immigrants in BC: The Case of Filipino Workers. Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Philippine Women Centre.

Butterwick, Shauna. “Low Income Single Mothers and Access to Post-Secondary Education.” Paper presented at the 2005 Economic Security Project Conference, Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 13-15, 2005.

Butterwick, Shauna. “Access to adult basic education and post-secondary training for low-income people.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Butterwick, Shauna, and Whitney Borowko. “Redefining ‘Welfare to Work’ in BC: Meaningful Training and Employment Programs for Long-Term Social Assistance Recipients.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Clark, Lisa, and Marjorie Griffin Cohen. “Gendered Distinctions in Teenage Work in BC: The Beginnings of a Pattern.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Cohn, Daniel. “Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Alberta and British Columbia: The Role of Sub-National Politics 1992-2002.” Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 2-4, 2005.

Fairey, David. 2005. “New ‘Flexible’ Employment Standards Regulation and the Polarization of Work in BC.” Paper presented at the 2005 BC Studies and BC Political Studies Association Conference, “Heartland or Hinterland? British Columbia From the Inside Out”, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, April 28-30, 2005.

Fairey, David. Employer Dominated or Influenced Unions & New Employment Standards Act Exclusion of Unionized Workers from Core Provisions, Labour Research Forum Round-Table, Trade Union Research Bureau, Vancouver, British Columbia, February 22, 2006.

Goldsmith, Laurie. “Community Health Centres in BC: Variation in Organization and Context.” Paper presented at the 2008 Economic Security Project Conference, Re-Imagining Health Services: Innovations in Community Health Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, November 6-8, 2008.

Goldsmith, Laurie. “Key organizational and delivery features of community health centres in BC” Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Calgary, AB, May 11-14, 2009.

Gurstein, Penny, and Anisha Datta. “Government Contracting Out of IT-Enabled Work: Implications for Workers.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Istvanffy, Nick, and Marcy Cohen. “Removing Barriers and Creating Opportunities to Partial or Episodic Engagement with the Labour Force for People with Disabilities.” Presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

MacPhail, Fiona and Paul Bowles. “Casual Workers and Economic Security in British Columbia.” Paper presented at the 2005 BC Studies and BC Political Studies Association Conference, Heartland or Hinterland? British Columbia From the Inside Out, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, April 28-30, 2005.

MacPhail, Fiona. “Imagining Public Policy: What do Women Casual Workers Want?” Paper presented at 2005 Economic Security Project Conference, Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 13-15, 2005.

MacPhail, Fiona and Paul Bowles. “Casual Work and Economic Insecurity: Implications for Policy.” Economic Program Seminar, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, February 24, 2006.

MacPhail, Fiona and Paul Bowles. “Gender Dimensions of the Rise in Casual Employment.” Paper presented at Exploring New Realities of Gender in Canadian Society Workshop, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, March 2-3, 2006.

MacPhail, Fiona and Paul Bowles. Pathways from Casual Work to Socio-Economic Security Workshop, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, September 15-16, 2006.

McBride, Stephen and Kathleen McNutt. 2005. “BC’s Labour Policy Regime in Comparative Perspective.” Paper presented at the 2005 BC Studies and British Columbia Political Studies Association Conference, “Heartland or Hinterland? British Columbia From the Inside Out,” University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, April 28-30, 2005.

McBride, Stephen, Kathleen McNutt and Russell A. Williams. “The OECD Jobs Strategy in Context: Comparing Labour Market Policy Responses to Globalization.” Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario, London, June 2005.

McBride, Stephen. “The Theory and Practice of the Neoliberal Labour Policy Regime in Canada.” Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association 2005 Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 2-4, 2005.

McBride, Stephen and Kathleen McNutt. “Women’s Economic Security Experiences of Labour Market Alienation.” Paper presented at the 2005 Economic Security Project Conference, Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 13-15, 2005.

McBride, Stephen and Kathleen McNutt. “Outpost of Empire: American Social Triumphalism on the Canadian Periphery?” Paper presented at 7th GASSP Seminar, The Rise and Fall of the International Influence of American Social Policy, Hamilton, Ontario, September 10-11, 2004.

McLaren, Arlene, and Mark Thompson. “Field Reports: Impacts of Changes to Employment Regulation on Immigrant and Migrant Farm Workers in BC.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Morrow, Marina. “Making Work: Income Security for Women with Mental Illness.” Paper presented at the 2005 Economic Security Project Conference, Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 13-15, 2005.

Morrow, Marina. “Where’s the Care: Re-Conceptualizing the Boundaries of Public and Private in Community-based Home Support Services.” Paper presented at the 2005 Economic Security Project Conference, Imagining Public Policy to Meet Women’s Economic Security Needs, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, October 13-15, 2005.

Morrow, Marina. “Economic Security for People with Mental Illness.” Paper presented at 2006 Congress for Social Sciences and Humanities, York University, Toronto, May 27-June 3, 2006.

Morrow, Marina. “Relocations, Dislocations and Innovations in Mental Health Reform: Examining the Interface between Tertiary and Community-based Mental Health.” Paper presented at the 2008 Economic Security Project Conference, Re-Imagining Health Services: Innovations in Community Health Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, November 6-8, 2008.

Murray, Stuart, Steve Kerstetter, and Michael Goldberg. “Who Deserves What: Establishing the Income Thresholds for Minimum/Living Wages and Incomes Assistance.” Presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Sharman, Zena. “Assessing the state of community care for British Columbia’s vulnerable Seniors.” Paper presented at the International Federation on Ageing 8 th Global Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 30 – June 2, 2006.

Wallace, Bruce. “Denied Assistance: Closing the Front Door on Welfare in BC.” Lecture presented at Provisioning, Work and Communities Research Symposium, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, March 22, 2006.

Young, Margot. “Basic Income Proposals: The Politics of Motherhood and Labour Market Attachment.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

Zaman, Habiba, Cecilia Diocson and Rebecca Scott. “Economic Security and Impacts of the Employment Standard Act on Immigrants in British Columbia.” Paper presented at the Eighth National Metropolis Conference: Immigration and Canada’s Place in a Changing World, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 23-26, 2006.

Zaman, Habiba and Cecilia Diocson. Asian Immigrants in BC: What Do Government Policy Changes Mean for Asian Immigrants in the Labour Market and What are the Solutions? Workshop Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, April 8, 2006.

Zaman, Habiba. Presented at the National Alliance of Philippine Women in Canada Conference, “Making the Filipino Count in Ontario,” Steelworkers’ Union Building, Toronto, Ontario, November 10-12, 2006.

Zaman, Habiba. “BC Employment Standards Act and Recent Immigrants: The Case of the Filipino.” Paper presented at the 2007 Economic Security Project Conference, Jobs & Justice: Strategies and Solutions for Economic Security, Maritime Labour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 29-31, 2007.

STREAM 2 - WELFARE AND SOCIAL POLICY REFORM

Irwin, John. 2004. “BC’s Social Housing Shell Game.” BC Commentary. Volume 7, number 3, Fall 2004. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Kerstetter, Steve. 2006. “A Better Way to Set Welfare Rates.” BC Commentary. Volume 9, number 2, Spring/Summer 2006. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Klein, Seth. 2006. “A better way to set welfare rates.” (Opinion editorial) November 1, 2006.

Klein, Seth, and Andrea Smith. “Picking the Pockets of the Poor: The Price of BC’s Welfare Cuts.” BC Commentary. Volume 9, Number 3, Fall 2006. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Lee, Marc. 2004. “BC’s Growing Gap in the 1990s.” BC Commentary. Volume 7, number 3, Fall 2004. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Pulkingham, Jane. 2006. “Bucking the National Trend: BC’s welfare cuts and poverty among lone mothers.” (Opinion editorial) June 8, 2006. (Ran in Peace River Block Daily News, Harbour City Star, New Westminster Record, Burnaby Now)

Reitsma-Street, Marge. 2006. “Are people in need denied assistance.” (Opinion editorial) The Times-Colonist. April 24, 2006.

Wallace, Bruce. 2006. “Denied Assistance: Closing the Front Door on Welfare in B.C.” SPARC BC News from the Social Planning Research Council of BC. Fall 2006, Volume 23, No. 4. Social Planning and Research Council of BC.

Wallace, Bruce. 2006. “Discouraged, Delayed and Denied: Is Helping Fewer People Really Helping?” Perspectives. Volume 28, No. 3. British Columbia Association of Social Workers.

Wallace, Bruce. 2006. “Denied Assistance: Poverty in British Columbia.” Our Paper. Fall 2006. Our Paper Society Collective.

Wallace, Bruce. 2006. “Denied Assistance.” Taproot. April/May 2006, Issue #48. Together Against Poverty Society.

Wallace, Bruce, Seth Klein and Marge Reitsma-Street. 2006. “Denied Assistance: Closing the Door on Welfare in BC.” BC Commentary. Volume 9, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2006. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Wallace, Bruce, Seth Klein and Marge Reitsma-Street. 2006. “Denied Assistance: Closing the Door on Welfare in BC.” Re:action – The Member Newsletter of the Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group. Spring 2006. Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group.

Wallace, Bruce, Seth Klein and Marge Reitsma-Street, “Call for Accountability at the Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance.” (Opinion editorial) April 18, 2006. (Ran in Peace River Block Daily News, Burnaby Now, Kamloops This Week, Professional Employees Association, Lower Island News)

STREAM 3 - COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE RESTRUCTURING

Cohen, Marcy. 2005. “Untangling the spin about long-term care in BC.” (Opinion editorial) April 13, 2005.

Cohen, Marcy. 2007. “The Decline of Community Health Services in BC” BC Commentary. Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2007. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Morrow, Marina. 2007. “Mental Health Services and Social Policy in BC.” BC Commentary. Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2007. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Pollak, Nancy, Marcy Cohen, and Jane Stinson. 2005. “The Pains of Health Care Privatization.” (Opinion editorial) April 27, 2005.

Cuts to Residential & Home Health Care in BC, BC Issues, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, April 2005.

CROSS-STREAM

Butterwick, Shauna. 2006. “A Path Out of Poverty: Helping BC Income Assistance Recipients Upgrade Their Education.” BC Commentary. Volume 9, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2006. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marcy. 2005. “Democratizing Public Services: International Lessons for BC’s Health Care System.” BC Commentary. Volume 8, no. 3, Fall 2005. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin. “Government policies part of story of BC's declining median income” (Opinion Editorial) May 27 2008 (Ran in Vancouver Sun, Kelowna Daily Courier, The Tyee, Trail Daily Times, Nelson Daily Times, Peace River Block Daily Times).

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin and Marcy Cohen. 2005. “Rolling Back Pay Equity Gains: The Case of Health Support Privatization.” BC Commentary, Vol. 8, no. 1, Winter 2005. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Cohen, Marjorie Griffin, and Seth Klein. 2006. “Big budget surplus a good time to bridge the gender gap.” (Opinion editorial) February 16, 2006. Vancouver Sun (Also ran in Kelowna Daily Courier, The Tyee, Trail Daily Times, Nelson Daily Times, Peace River Block Daily Times).

Klein, Seth, Deborah Littman, Adrienne Montani and Tim Richards. “Corporate social responsibility means paying a living wage.” (Opinion Editorial) September 30, 2008 (Ran in Vancouver Sun, Trail Daily Times, canada.com)