Search results for “node/poverty”

  • Seniors Care

    Poverty and Inequality Among British Columbia’s Seniors

    Download 2.76 MB56 pages BC seniors are anything but a homogenous group. Large income and wealth inequalities exist among both seniors and working-age British Columbians—the defining problem we face isn’t about intergenerational inequality, but rather the growing gap between rich and poor across generations. This study uses Statistics Canada data…

  • BC Priorities in the face of an economic downturn

    Gordon Campbell’s recent 10-point economic plan will have no impact on BC’s most serious problem – persistent and extreme poverty. BC has the highest poverty rates in the country (by any measure used). Thirteen percent of the population is living in poverty, and for five years running BC has had…

  • Poverty reduction: What other provinces are doing

    BC has much to learn from other provinces when it comes to poverty reduction. Six provinces now have poverty reduction plans, although most are still fairly new, and therefore we don’t yet have data to tell us what kind of success they are meeting with, the exceptions being Quebec and…

  • Nova Scotia Budget Doesn’t Meet Current Challenges

    Halifax, NS – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS is concerned that even more people will be left behind because of holes in our safety net that the Nova Scotia budget 2022-23 does not fix. As Christine Saulnier, Director of the CCPA-Nova Scotia says, “The government has the fiscal capacity…

  • Taxation and Poverty

    Injustice built into our tax system hurts poor the most U.S. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously declared: “I don’t mind paying taxes. They buy me civilization.” I completely agree. But in the last 28 years, tax policies have been ever more biased in favour of powerful special interests which…

  • Child and Family Poverty in Halifax

    Download

  • Fast Facts: Nova Scotia Education Overhaul a Cautionary Tale for Manitoba

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Wednesday May 12, 2021 Public education is a public good that promotes well-being and citizenship for all. Efforts to improve public education should be done for this purpose. Manitoba has instead joined a concerning trend across Canada demanding constant improvement in education…

  • Time for a new social contract to eradicate child and family poverty in Nova Scotia

    The annual child and family poverty report card, published in partnership with Campaign 2000, is a reminder of how broken our social contract is, and of the urgency to fix it. What values should be prioritized and what rights should be upheld?

  • Poverty reduction update

    Lots of developments on the Poverty Reduction front over the last two weeks. Here are a few updates: First, last week brought news that Danny Williams is stepping down as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. Personally, I’m sad to see him go. Rarely mentioned in the news reports last week…

  • BC Budget 2021: Stay-the-course budget misses the mark on key areas of urgency outside health

    The BC government tabled a surprisingly stay-the-course budget today, making some improvements on the margins but missing the opportunity to shift BC towards a more inclusive and sustainable economy. While it appropriately includes large sums of time-limited spending relating to the pandemic (and indeed BC has led other provinces on…

  • Think Upstream

    Towards Justice

    Tackling Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada Download 1011.76 KB25 pages This report provides the third installment in a series of papers that track the gap between Indigenous children and other children in Canada, using the after-tax Low-Income Measure (LIM-AT). That snapshot provides a disturbing picture of child poverty in Canada: one where…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Work Life: Investing in Social Enterprise to reduce poverty and green house gases

    A new Errol Black Chair paper explains how a combination of governmental policies and initiatives in Manitoba allows social enterprises to reduce Manitoba’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while training and employing Inner City workers. The provincial government and Manitoba Hydro are supporting social enterprises so they can work in two…