The Alberta Worker
Last month, the UCP government released their latest budget, which saw more allocated to AISH than last year. But the number of people on the programme has also increased.
The UCP government released their latest budget, and it’s not good news for K–12 schools.
The UCP government issued their 5th provincial budget last week, and postsecondary students are getting dumped on. Again.
The 2023–2024 Alberta budget shows that the UCP increased health spending by $1.25 billion less than needed for inflation and population growth.
Earlier this week, the UCP released their latest provincial budget. In this article, I break down where all the revenue is coming from.
85% of the term debt that Alberta currently owes was incurred under the NDP and UCP.
New data for the two years since the SCS closed was shut down due to cancelled government funding shows a relationship between SCS usage in Lethbridge and the number of drug deaths seen in Lethbridge.
Plus, we’re spending less now than we were 10 years ago, the second worst performance in the country.
The UCP is increasing spending with their $12.3 billion budget surplus. But you might want to hold off on celebrating for now.
The party announced that if they win the 2023 provincial election, they plan to spend over a billion dollars a year to create tens of thousands of new jobs.