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No gifts for single mothers in Canada’s Spring Economic Update
A third of single mothers are poor and the federal government is failing to act
A third of single mothers are poor and the federal government is failing to act
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Alternative federal budget 2026: Poverty and income security
Building true Canadian sovereignty
What the Canadian government should do on poverty and income security. Because true independence needs a new economic model.
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Growing and Deepening Child Poverty in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan government’s long record of neglect has left it with some of the worst economic outcomes for children in the country.
The Saskatchewan government’s long record of neglect has left it with some of the worst economic outcomes for children in the country.
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2025 report card on child and family poverty on Prince Edward Island
Complacency is Disgraceful
Complacency is Disgraceful
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People in poverty need policy solutions, not a report card
Last week, the BC Government released the first update to the Poverty Reduction Strategy since the inaugural plan in 2019. As organizations long committed to ending poverty in BC, we hoped to see plans for how the government would achieve the targets that they set in the spring—reducing the overall…
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Evaluating BC Budget 2024’s commitments to racial equity
Poverty reduction is a crucial element to advancing racial equity in BC, but the province’s new targets for reducing overall poverty are insufficiently ambitious and lack the urgency needed to effect meaningful change.
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BC Child Poverty Rate Climbs as Income Inequality Grows
Thirty-five years after Canada’s parliament promised to end child poverty it still hasn’t happened. In 1989, a unanimous all-party House of Commons resolution was passed vowing to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Yet child poverty in British Columbia and across the country is on the rise…
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AFB 2024: Income and poverty
Alternative Federal Budget: What the federal government could achieve on income and poverty
Alternative Federal Budget: what the federal government could achieve on income and poverty
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Kids Can’t Wait: Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia in 2020
The widespread relief programs in the early days of the pandemic showed that it is indeed possible to quickly and dramatically reduce child poverty.
The widespread relief programs in the early days of the pandemic showed that it is indeed possible to quickly and dramatically reduce child poverty.
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Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19
For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally…
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Manitoba deserves a strong poverty reduction plan
Manitoba has startling poverty and inequality. The government can act.
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