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Press Release: Nova Scotia saw alarming increase in poverty and food insecurity—some of the highest in the country
Halifax/Kjipuktuk – Statistics Canada just released the most recent poverty and food insecurity data for 2022 and Nova Scotia’s rates are alarming. Some of the highlights from the data (using the Market Basket Measure and the Canadian Income Survey) include:
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2023 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: Families Deserve Action, Not Excuses
Halifax/Kjipuktuk -The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) released the 2023 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia, which records a historic single-year increase in child poverty since 1989 when the promise was made to eradicate child poverty. The child poverty rate in Nova Scotia in 2021 increased by 11.4%,…
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22.5% of N.S. children living in poverty: 2016 Child and Family Poverty Report Card
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX—While there was a slight decrease in child poverty nationally between 2013 and 2014, the child poverty rate in Nova Scotia remains stubbornly high, says the 2016 Nova Scotia Child and Family Poverty Report Card, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia…
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Poverty solutions must address racial, gender and neighborhood inequities in HRM-new report on child and family poverty
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX — 13,690 children, almost one in five, were living in poverty in Halifax in 2015, according to a new fact sheet released on child and family poverty within the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). At 18.8%, Halifax has the 7th highest child poverty rate among the 25…
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Half a million Ontario children growing up in poverty, new report shows
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT TORONTO—Half a million Ontario children are growing up in poverty, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) revealed today. “Newly released data for 2019 show that 500,000 children in this province are growing up knowing what it’s like to…
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Increasing number of Nova Scotia children living in poverty—findings of the 2020 Report Card just released
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT December 9, 2020 Halifax/Wolfville– In Nova Scotia there are 41,370 children who live in poverty based on the most recent data. The 2020 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that the percentage of children living in low-income circumstances in Nova…
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2023 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Families Deserve Action, Not Excuses
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BC home to Canada’s second highest poverty rate
New report: Province must stop rejecting need for poverty reduction plan READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – BC’s poverty rate is virtually unchanged from where it was a decade ago yet the province remains the only one in Canada without a poverty reduction plan. And it’s not because BC…
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Earlier this week, the BC government appointed an Advisory Forum on Poverty Reduction to provide expertise and assistance to the Minster of Social Development and Poverty Reduction in the development of a comprehensive poverty reduction strategy for BC. The 27 people named to the Forum represent communities across the province…
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The Impact of the Cost-of-Living Crisis on Vulnerable Nova Scotians
Submission to the Standing Committee on Community Services by Christine Saulnier, Ph.D., Director, CCPA-NS Dealing with cost increases is possible if your income is rising or your income was already decent, or you have a cushion of savings to draw down. Very many Nova Scotians are not so fortunate, and…
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What should Nova Scotians expect from the Federal Poverty Reduction Strategy?
Next week marks the end of the school year and for some families the end of supports that are only available to their children in school, including breakfast. Families should have access to family-centred income and services provided without stigma for all. To reduce poverty requires leadership from all levels…
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Fast Facts: No Poverty Reduction Strategy in Speech from the Throne
Tuesday morning, I received a phone call from a Make Poverty History Manitoba member. He lives on a disability benefit that provides him only $180 per month for food and other basic necessities. He wanted to know if he can expect any change soon. I told him we would see…
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