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  • 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…

  • Photovoice: A Youth Lens on Poverty in Winnipeg

    State of the Inner City Report 2013 What do young people think of inner-city Winnipeg? Sixteen youth from two community-based organizations have been trained as photojournalists to tell the stories of what they like and don’t like about their inner-city neighbourhoods.These young people’s photos and accompanying narrative form the heart…

  • 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…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    The Cost of Poverty in BC

    Download 1.55 MB45 pages Help change the conversation about poverty: READ the report or summary SHARE the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd_nkCi-pVo TAKE ACTION http://www.bcpovertyreduction.ca Attachments The Cost of Poverty in BC — SUMMARY The Time Is Now: A Poverty Reduction Plan for BC (2008)

  • Manitoba’s NDP: time to return to its social democratic roots

    In June, 1969, Manitoba elected Canada’s first NDP government and Manitoba’s first social democratic government. The NDP has since become the dominant political party in Manitoba, winning 8 of the last 12 elections and governing for almost two years in every three since June, 1969. The NDP’s latest run as…

  • Refuting the tired claims of those opposed to minimum wage increases

    In a Vancouver Sun opinion piece, Laura Jones of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business warns against minimum wage increases, calling it “Fa-la-la economics”. Perhaps it’s not the season to be so Grinch-like. Jones is right about one thing – the minimum wage is not a magic cure for our…

  • A generation of broken promises: The 2014 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia

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  • BC Budget 2017 fails to fill the hole we’ve dug for children, youth and families

    What’s the purpose of digging a hole and then re-filling it halfway or even all the way 15 years later? Child and youth services providers and families are asking this question as they review the “new” dollars for child-serving ministries in the 2017 BC budget. Over the last 15 years…

  • Highlights from BC Budget 2017

    The 2017 BC Budget was just released; here’s our analysis so far: MSP goes down for families with income under $120,000 MSP premiums are going to be cut in half for families with incomes under $120,000 as of January 2018. Essentially, BC Budget 2017 reverses the MSP increases this government…

  • Manitoba Research Alliance

    Fast Facts: Gains are being made – State of the Inner City Report 2015

    It has recently been claimed in the media that nothing is working in the fight against poverty. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives State of the Inner City Report 2015: Drawing on Our Strengths, shows that this is not the case. Important poverty-related indicators are improving. After decades of decline,…

  • Fast Facts: Literacy, Women and Poverty

    The Manitoba Government recently announced increased funding of $700,000 per year for adult literacy programs and Adult Learning Centres, bringing the yearly total to 20.6 million. This was a welcome increase against the backdrop that, according to the 2003 International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), 285,000 working age Manitobans…

  • Short BC throne speech neglects climate crisis, poverty

    Everyone expected today’s throne speech to be a brief recap of Christy Clark’s election platform. And on this front, it certainly delivered: only 8 pages, compared to the usual 20+, pinning our province’s hopes on LNG exports, and using much of the same language, word for word, that we’ve heard…