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Infographic: Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013
Our infographic, based on the Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2013, takes a revealing look at child and family poverty across Nova Scotia. (Click the image to enlarge)
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5 lessons from Ontario’s first poverty reduction strategy
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The year as we saw it: 10 charts that defined Ontario in 2016
The experts at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office have been tracking economic developments in Ontario throughout the year. Some problems persist: the gender pay gap, social assistance poverty, the use of expensive payday loans as a last resort because traditional banks fail to serve low-income customers as…
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BC’s minimum wage should not be a poverty wage
Labour and social justice groups in BC have long urged the provincial government to increase the minimum wage to a level that guarantees a path out of poverty for a single person working full-year, full-time. Year after year, the government has turned them down with the argument that BC already…
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Do we need a business case for poverty reduction?
I was reading up on poverty reduction policies and I came across a paragraph by Dalhousie University economics professor Lars Osberg that was just begging to be shared and discussed on PolicyNote:
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Bucking the National Trend
BC’s welfare cuts and poverty among lone mothers BC’s newspapers are full of banner headlines about record housing starts, construction booms and decades-low unemployment. “The numbers don’t lie” proclaim the boosters of the province’s policy record. Well, they can lie by omission. There is a dark side to BC’s economic…
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Looming increases to food prices will create more challenges to reducing poverty in Manitoba
Early last year stories hit the news about the potential for food prices to rise throughout 2011. Commodities prices for wheat, corn, sugar, and others were all on the rise which ultimately resulted in a 4.4% rise in the cost of food to December 2011. Since then, commodity prices have…
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What is poverty costing us in BC?
What is poverty costing us in BC? Help change the conversation about poverty: SHARE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVoLEARN http://www.policyalternatives.ca/costofpovertybcTAKE ACTION Look up your MLA using the MLA Finder at http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/3-1-1.htm and call, email, or visit their office (report in hand) to tell them that the cost of poverty is too high. Contact them while…
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Toronto’s Poverty Reduction Strategy can make progress on decent work
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NDP propose BC Poverty Reduction Act
Today in the BC Legislature, the Official Opposition (MLA Shane Simpson) introduced a private member’s Bill proposing a BC Poverty Reduction Act. That Act, were it to be enacted, would see the government develop a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy, and legislate specific targets and timelines to reduce the breadth and…
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Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: Still missing a federal partner
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Poverty Costs Resources
Poverty costs research looks at the economic cost of poverty and gives people an opportunity to voice their support for a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy.