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Welcome to the home of Taproot's Newsletter Archives.  Here you will be able to view the current,and past newsletters of the Together Against Poverty Society. Funding does not allow us to print and distribute as many copies as we have requests for but feel free to print off and distribute as many as you need.  The archives are in PDF format - Portable Document Format - and require a PDF reader to view them. 

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Title: Description: Published:
Taproot : 2008 August - September : Issue #62 Natal Supplements - p1
Social Safety Net - p2
TAPS Update - p3
Taproot Fiction - p4
CARTS - p5
University 101 - p6
2008-08-01
Taproot : 2008 June - July : Issue #61 Disability -p1
Living on Welfare -p2
Fiction: Staying Alive -p4
2008-06-01
Taproot : 2008 April - May : Issue #60 Tenancy, rental agreements -p1
Women, poverty -p2
TAPS Update -p3
Employment and disability -p6
2008-04-01
Taproot : February - March 2008 : Issue 59 Debtors' Rights -p1
PWD Reporting Changes -p2
Lost ID -p3
Fiction -p4
Poor People's Levee Tour
2008-02-01
Taproot : December 2007 - January 2008 : Issue 58 Appeals -p1
disability -p2
TAPS organization -p3
Fiction -p4
Action Committee of People with Disabilities -p7
2007-12-01
Taproot: October - November 2007 Issue 57 Rent Increases -p1
TAPS Organization -p3
Fiction -p4
TAPS AGM -p5
2007-10-01
Taproot: August - September 2007 Issue 56 Inheritances, Financial Awards and Income Assistance Eligibility -p1
MEIA, Overpayments, Reviews -p2
Poverty, Stereotypes -p3
Fiction -p4
2007-08-01
Taproot-AprMay2007-Issue54 Rate Increases for Income Assistance; Child Poverty - Up and Down; TAPS 18th Birthday Party; Bob Nobucks - The Wallet; 10th Piggy Awards draw hundreds 2007-04-01
Taproot-2007-Feb-Mar-Issue53 Anti-Poverty Electors; Bob Nobucks: Traplines; 2007 Piggy Awards; Leisure Involvement for Everyone; Poor Peoples Levee Tour 2007; Carol James 2007-02-01
Taproot : October – November 2006 : Issue 51 Fiction -p1
MEIA, IA, Spouse in the house, spousal relationship, cohabitation -p2
TAPS organization -p3
MEIA, IA, service delivery -p4
2006-10-01
Taproot : August – September 2006 : Issue 50 Poverty, Poverty Rates, Children, Single Mothers -p1
Fiction -p2
TAPS organization -p3
Poverty, UN, MEIA, IA -p4
Computers -p5
MEIA, IA, legislation, policy -p6
2006-08-01
Taproot : June – July 2006 : Issue 49 Fiction -p1
MEIA, IA, welfare policy -p2
Guaranteed Livable Income -p6
2006-06-01
Taproot : April – May 2006 : Issue 48 MEIA, IA, welfare policy -p1
IA rates, MEIA, IA, welfare policy -p2
MEIA, IA, welfare policy, ombudsman’s report -p4

2006-04-01
Taproot : February – March 2006 : Issue 47 IA rates -p1
Safe Streets Act, panhandling -p2
TAPS organization -p3
Fiction -p4
2006-02-01
Taproot : December 2005 – January 2006 : Issue 46 Welfare, IA, stereotypes -p1
MEIA, IA, overpayments, fraud -p2
TAPS organization -p4
Michelles story (this article needs to be removed from the website) -p5
2005-12-01
Taproot : October – November 2005 : Issue 45 IA -p1
Fiction -p2
TAPS organization -p3
Tenancy, Residential Tenancy Branch -p4
TAPS organization -p6
2005-10-01
Taproot : June – July 2005 : Issue 43 MEIA, IA, employment plan, student loan -p1
Fiction -p2
MEIA, IA, single mothers, legislation -p3
2005-06-01
Taproot : April – May 2005 : Issue 42 Panhandling, homelessness, street camping bylaw -p1
Working poor -p2
MEIA, refugees -p3
TAPS Organization, Sue Hendricks -p4
TAPS Organization, -p5
2005-04-01
Taproot : February – March 2005 : Issue 41 MEIA, Ombudsman -p1
TAPS Organization -p2
TAPS Organization -p3
Letter, IA -p3
Dental care -p4
Working poor -p5
2005-02-01
Taproot : December 2004 – January 2005 : Issue 40 MEIA, IA, Nutritional supplement -p1
Fiction -p2
TAPS Organization -p4
Disability, IA rates -p6
2004-12-01
Taproot : October – November 2004 : Issue 39 MEIA, IA, application process -p1
Poverty, TV -p2
MEIA, IA, time limits -p3
Social housing, subsidized housing, affordable housing -p4
2004-10-01
Taproot : August – September 2004 : Issue 38 MEIA, IA, application process -p1
SWAG, charity, women’s charity audit, women in poverty -p2
Poverty, living in poverty -p4
MEIA, IA, PPMB -p7
TAPS Organization -p7
2004-08-01
Taproot : June – July 2004 : Issue 37 MEIA, IA, earned income -p1
Poverty -p2
Women’s Charity Audit, SWAG -p3
Low Income Cut-Off, poverty line, IA rates -p4
MEIA, IA, employment plan -p5
2004-06-01
Taproot : April – May 2004 : Issue 36 MEIA, IA, time limits -p1
Poverty -p2
Community agencies, IA rates -p3
TAPS Organization -p3
Tenancy, Residential Tenancy Act -p4
Food security -p5
2004-04-01
Taproot : February – March 2004 : Issue 35 MEIA, IA, homelessness, hardship, employment plan -p1
IA, time limits -p2
Earni Knott -p3
Poverty, food -p4
New Year’s Day Levee Tour, activism -p5
2004-02-01
Taproot : October – November 2003 : Issue 33 MEIA, IA, employment plan -p1
Poverty, living in poverty -p2
MEIA, IA, repayment agreements, appeal rights -p3
Housing -p4
2003-10-01
Taproot : August – September 2003 : Issue 32 MEIA, IA, disability -p1
IA, Job search programs, time limits -p2
REES -p6
TAPS Organization -p7
2003-08-01
Taproot : June – July 2003 : Issue 31 IA, time limits -p1
Residential Tenancy Act, tenancy -p2
TAPS Organization -p3
IA, time limits, IA eligibility -p4
Saint Vincent de Paul -p5
2003-06-01
Taproot : April 2003 (April – May) : Issue 30 MHR, IA, two-year independence test, IA eligibility -p1
Employment, unemployment, -p2
TAPS organization -p3
MHR, IA, file closure -p4
Fiction -p5
2003-04-01
Taproot : February 2003 (February – March) : Issue 29 MHR, IA, file closure -p1
Activism, Levee Tour -p2
MHR, IA, PPMB, eligibility -p4
Activism, Assembly to End Poverty -p5
TAPS organization -p6
2003-02-01
Taproot : December 2002 (December – January) : Issue 28 MHR, IA, immigrants, 2-year independence test –p1
TAPS organization, D. Livingston -p2
St. Saviour's Rainbow Kitchen -p3
End Poverty -p4
Guaranteed Adequate Income -p5
Labour camps -p6
Residential Tenancy Act -p7
2002-12-01
Taproot : October 2002 (October – November) : Issue 27 Burnside Gorge Community Housing Project, Homelessness -p1
Fiction -p3
MHR, IA, disability, PWD -p4
Activism, tenancy, Renters Union, -p6
2002-10-01
Taproot : August 2002 (August – September) : Issue 26 PWD, IA, appeal rights -p1
Tenancy, Residential Tenancy Act, co-tenants -p2
MHR, IA, dental care, dental benefits -p4
Poverty, living in poverty -p5
Activism, Anti-Poverty Coalition -p6
TAPS organization -p7
2002-08-01
Taproot : June 2002 (June – July) : Issue 25 IA, activism -p1
IA, legislation, Bill 26, Bill 27 -p2
Food, Good Food Box -p3
Bill 26, Bill 27, opinion -p4
Bill 26, Bill 27, disability -p5
2002-06-01
Taproot : December 2001 : Issue 24 Training wage -p1
Monthly Nutritional Benefit -p2
Tenancy, Eviction -p2
2001-12-01
Taproot : October 2001 : Issue 23 Women -p1
Tenancy, pets -p2
IA, medical benefits -p4
2001-10-01