Buying your daily hot drinks from a locally owned coffee shop can inject over $1,000 per person a year back into the BC economy.
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How Your Community Benefits
We all want to make our neighbourhoods and community stronger and healthier, with lots of great public services and activities for families – from health care to skateboard parks.
The problem is that, as individuals or families, we think there’s very little we can do to help with that.
But we have more power than we think
If we made a conscious choice to think local-first and shifted our spending, you’d see some pretty big changes pretty fast. We’d see:
- Local businesses that are supported and sustainable instead of the all-too-frequent empty storefronts
- More and better-paying local jobs instead of part-time, minimum wage employment
- A broader tax base – which for you and me means more and better local services for our families
When you think about it, that’s a lot of power in our hands if we all start making this simple shift.
A Shift Fact...
