That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years,
combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and
youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working
population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»
For their analyses, the researchers used
combined data from the 1991 - 2015 waves of the federal «
Youth Risk Behavior Surveys,» a school - based cross-sectional survey designed to capture the prevalence of health - risk behaviors for the leading causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality across time and racial / ethnic
populations.