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Poverty to Prosperity
Budget Presentation
Gordon House March 19, 2015
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In 2013 we brought the Jamaica food basket to Parliament to show just how much things
have changed since this government came into power in 2012. We demonstrated at the
time that, Jamaicans were suffering due to the effects of devaluation and a sharp erosion of
their purchasing power.
I thought it a useful exercise to compare the basket of goods a fixed weekly minimum wage
earner could actually purchase with $3,000 in 2011 and 2013 against the basket of goods
that could be purchased today with the same $3,000.