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  • Gazan’s basic income bill could be a game-changer in fight against poverty in Canada

    Bill C-223 is a step in the right direction, but real policy action still needed on poverty reduction

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  • UNSPUN: Four Political Platforms on Poverty

    Manitobans rate themselves to be a generous andcaring society. When natural disasters strike, we are the first to respond. Manitobans are Canada’s most reliable donors to causes both at home and abroad. So how is it that poverty continues to afflict more than 140,000 Manitobans, including 40,000 children? Quite simply,…

  • A convenient distraction: racism

    A convenient distraction: Is racist messaging being used in BC’s provincial election?

    Ever since the economy started to slow down, the political discourse in BC has shifted dramatically. Immigrants and international students are blamed for the housing crisis and for driving down wages; people experiencing homelessness, addiction or mental health crises are blamed for making public spaces “unsafe” and engaging in crime;…

  • Aerial View of Winnipeg, Manitoba during Summer

    Political pragmatism vs. poverty reduction

    Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press April 22, 2024

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    It’s election time and Ontario still chooses not to eliminate poverty

    My mother grew up in a poor family in the interior of Brazil, and raised four children just a few blocks from one of São Paulo’s largest slums. On her first visit to Ontario, she was taken aback by a lack of visible poverty. I spared her my social science…

  • Canada’s new Poverty Reduction Strategy: Strong on accountability, short on action

    Note: All figures in the above chart from the 2016 Census, based on Market Basket Measure, Canada’s official poverty line for 2015 income year. Numbers are rounded. These figures are slightly different from those report in the PRS based on the 2015 Canada Income Survey. Canada’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, Opportunity…

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    The Cost of Poverty in Manitoba

    Health costs $347 million Crime $197 million  Opportunity Costs $1.6 billion  Intergenerational $324 million  Total cost of poverty in Manitoba $2.5 billion Cost per Manitoban $1,952 Poverty cost as a percent of Manitoba’s GDP 3.4%  Source: Author’s calculations based on data from various sources including Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey Public Use Microdata File. See Plante (2020) for details.

  • Hope on the horizon?

    What the new federal poverty plan means for Manitoba The federal government released its national poverty reduction strategy “Opportunities for All” last month. The plan has implications for the soon-to be released Manitoba poverty reduction plan. The federal and provincial governments must take serious action to bring down poverty rates…

  • Old broken shoes of a little boy as a symbol for child poverty

    2022 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia

    Kids Can’t Wait Download 653.73 KB53 pages The 2022 report provides child and family poverty rates for Nova Scotia, based on 2020 data. Nova Scotia’s child poverty rate in 2020 decreased by 24.3%. This is the most significant single-year reduction on record (between 2019 and 2020). 31,370 children were living in low-income families…

  • Fast Facts: Ending Poverty, Our Collective Responsibility: 2019 Manitoba Throne Speech

    Yesterday, Manitoba released its Speech from the Throne – the provincial government’s plan for the next couple of months while they’re in the Legislature making decisions. Ending Poverty in Manitoba is a collective responsibility – one that deserves to be on the top of the priority list for any government…

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    Unchecked inequality is driving child poverty

    Take a guess: what year was Ontario richest? Was it 1945? 1967? 2002? The correct answer is 2019. That year, inflation-adjusted economic activity per person — what economists call real GDP per capita — hit a record level. Just before COVID-19, Ontario was richer than ever. Yet we still had…

  • Families Deserve Action to End Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia

    Nova Scotia has the fiscal capacity to build that poverty-free future where kids can be kids, housed, fed, and thriving

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