Vaughn Palmer: B.C. NDP poverty reduction very much a work in progress

VICTORIA — Ten years after New Democrat Shane Simpson first called for a B.C. poverty reduction strategy, the now cabinet minister released the first version of one on Monday.
Together Now, as it is called, runs to more than 40 pages and lists dozens of measures large and small, some announced earlier, others still to come.
Together, they are supposed to reduce the poverty rate in B.C. by 25 per cent and the child poverty rate by 50 per cent over the next five years.
Cost? About $4 bi