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  • Growing Gap

    Infographic: From Bad to Worse: Child Poverty Rates in Canada

    From bad to worse: our infographic reveals Indigenous and non-Indigenous child poverty rates across Canada, based on our study Poverty or Prosperity: Indigenous children in Canada. The Atlantic and territorial numbers could not be specified as the data sets were too small to be statistically reliable at this level. They…

  • 2007 BC Budget must tackle poverty, homelessness

    READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Amid rising public concern about poverty and homelessness, the provincial government is being urged to adopt a comprehensive anti-poverty strategy in its next budget. “With a surplus that is likely to pass the $4 billion mark next year, there is no reason why…

  • Fast Facts: It takes all day to be poor

    The State of the Inner City Report 2009 For the past five years, CCPA Manitoba has conducted inner-city research in collaboration with community-based organizations. The purpose of our research has been to chronicle the progress being made and to identify where problems continue to exist and how they might be…

  • Specialist offers insight into lives of WorkSafe claimants with chronic pain: poverty, depression, suicide attempts

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) A report released today takes an in-depth look at a sample of WCB (or Worksafe BC) claimants with chronic pain and raises the alarm about serious flaws in how WCB deals with injured workers who develop chronic pain. “I’ve been working in…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Paying a ‘living wage’ is good for everybody

    We all want Metro Vancouver to be a livable and sustainable place, for ourselves, our families and our children. However, for many families who work for low wages, municipalities across Metro Vancouver are inhospitable. We often hear about the affordability problem in our region but we rarely hear about the…

  • The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2010

    1989–2008 Download 816.28 KB27 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 2008, the year…

  • The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2011

    1989-2009 Download 696.25 KB11 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 2009, the year…

  • Poverty Reduction: Even Alberta?

    Currently, six provinces have official poverty reduction strategies either in place or (in the case of Manitoba) in development. BC, despite having the highest poverty rates, remains stubbornly in the minority of provinces without a plan (along with Alberta, Saskatchewan and PEI). But now comes news earlier this month that…

  • Report engages youth, elders and community leaders to tackle radicalized poverty in Winnipeg

    State of the Inner City 2012 READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. WINNIPEG, MB – Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba (CCPA-MB) is releasing the 2012 State of the Inner City Report: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges at Thunderbird House today at 12 p.m. The report speaks to concerns raised by community-based…

  • Growing Gap

    The Problem of Poverty Post-Recession

    Download 318.18 KB 7 pages Every recession ushers in a rising tide of poverty. As jobless and underemployed people struggle to make ends meet, the nouveau poor swell the ranks of the déjà poor. The most recent statistical update on incomes in Canada was released in June, telling us that…

  • Canadian women among poorest of the poor

    We used to hear a lot about the feminization of poverty. It hasn’t been in the news much lately. Yet women remain among the poorest of the poor in Canada, and the percentage of women living in poverty is growing. Almost 19% of adult women are now poor – the…

  • People with disabilities last in line

      October 30th is the day that people with disabilities will begin to receive a one-time payment of $600 in recognition of the significant increase in expenses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The payout comes a full 14 weeks after authorizing legislation was finally passed following much political wrangling, five…