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  • Alleviation of poverty must become a priority

    According to recent news reports, government financial supports for welfare recipients are decreasing. At the same time, governments are posting surpluses, doling out tax cuts to the wealthy and providing grants to profitable corporations. A recent report finds that, between 1989 and 2005, when inflation is taken into account welfare…

  • June 2007: The Economic Costs of Poverty

    Ending child poverty has economic as well as moral benefits The main arguments raised for reducing the appallingly high rate of childhood poverty in Canada have mostly focused on its social costs–on the misery and deprivation inflicted on our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This is indeed the most compelling…

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    Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    To tackle working poverty, BC needs a much higher minimum wage

    With today’s 20-cent minimum wage increase, BC temporarily escapes its bottom-of-the-barrel ranking as one of the lowest-paying provinces in Canada. But come October 1, when five provinces raise their minimum wages, we will once again trail the rest of the country. That’s right, despite being the most expensive place to…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: A Province with No Poverty?

    The so-called war on poverty has been an abysmal failure.  Poverty rates in Canada remain at stubbornly high levels.  Most provinces, including Manitoba, still have about one in 10 living below acceptable low-income cut-offs.    Low-income Manitobans, like other low-income Canadians, fall back on a myriad of programs supposedly aimed at…

  • Ontario’s Social Assistance Poverty Gap

    Download 542.78 KB20 pages This report drills down on one key but complex policy file that is essential to the province meeting its commitment to reduce poverty and to improve income security for both children and adults: social assistance. The poverty gap for single individuals who qualify for Ontario Works or its…

  • Fast Facts: Palliser Blaming, Punishing the Poor

    This past week saw a new low with our provincial government singling out and imposing shame and burden on lower income families in Manitoba.  Most significant was the proposed introduction of the new carbon levy and PST cut, aimed at replacing the current federal backstop.  The current federal scheme ensures…

  • Open Letter: Anti-Poverty, Fair Economy, Labour and Environmental Advocates Agree on Five Key Principles for a Made-in-Nova Scotia Carbon Pricing System

    Premier McNeil and Finance Minister Delorey, The dramatic social and economic costs of a changing climate are well-documented, requiring an immediate and multi-pronged strategy on the part of governments to meet the challenges faced today, which will continue to intensify for future generations. Canada’s commitment to the Paris target of…

  • UNSPUN: Communities leading the way need provincial support

    The province has invested widely in community development and “place-based” approaches to renewal and poverty reduction, with many positive results. Place-based approaches such as these are now being adopted in communities across the country as research shows that residents overwhelmed by poverty need complementary supports and resources close to home.…

  • The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013

    1989–2011 Download 637.54 KB 26 pages Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the government of Canada’s 1989 promise to end child poverty by the year 2000. This year’s report card examines the period 1989 to 2011 (the…

  • Not allowed to talk about poverty

    BC Stats put out a release yesterday with the headline “Low Income Cut-Offs (LICOs) are a Poor Measure of Poverty” and author Dan Schrier gets in a dirty hit right in first paragraph: Despite protestations from Statistics Canada that LICOs are not meant to be used as a measure of poverty, there…

  • Fast Facts: 62 recommendations and the Legacy of Phoenix Sinclair

    “The social and economic conditions that render children vulnerable to abuse and neglect are well beyond the scope of the child welfare system” (Hon. Ted Hughes, Commissioner, The Legacy of Phoenix Sinclair: Achieving the Best for All Our Children). Phoenix Sinclair spent much of her young life in and out…

  • Can Metro Vancouver afford more equitable access to transit for youth and low-income households?

    In Metro Vancouver the #AllOnBoard campaign is making the case for equitable access to transit for youth and low-income households. The campaign is calling for: (1) free transit for those under age 18; and, (2) a sliding-scale pass for adults based on income. Discounting transit fares deserves to be part…