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  • Healthy public policy requires working within and beyond the health care system

    Population health metrics are about more than just health care—they’re about the society we live in.

    Population health metrics are about more than just health care—they’re about the society we live in.

  • Our BC Budget 2019 priorities: Poverty reduction and climate action

    In anticipation of the 2019 BC Budget—which the provincial government will present in February—the CCPA-BC is publishing a series of Policy Note posts highlighting the recommendations from our submission to the Budget Consultations. Those recommendations include ideas for improving BC’s health care, education, transit, child care and much more. Today,…

  • Poverty in the Midst of COVID-19

    A report card on child and family poverty in Ontario in 2020

    In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of large sections of the Ontario economy. In a few short months, total economic activity in the province fell by 13%. By May, 1.1 million workers were out of a job. The unemployment rate, which had been 5.5% in February 2020,…

  • Manitoba tax changes need to target wealthy to reduce poverty

    Basic Personal Exemption (BPE) increases are being brought in by the new provincial government under the auspices of reducing poverty. The BPE is the floor at which we start paying provincial income taxes. Not only will these changes do little to help low-income earners, they will bring in less revenue…

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

    Poverty in the Midst of Plenty

    A report card on child and family poverty in Ontario Download 752.36 KB 44 pages Ontario is a wealthy province in a wealthy country, yet child poverty remains a pressing social concern in every community. In 2019, the most recent year for which data are available, one in six children…

  • 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia

    Worst Provincial Performance over 30 Years Download 1.24 MB62 pages This report provides 2021 child and family poverty rates for Nova Scotia, based on 2019 data, the most recent available data. Between 1989 and 2019, child poverty rates decreased in every province and territory. However, Nova Scotia has performed the worst…

  • Time for a New Social Contract to Eradicate Child and Family Poverty

    Halifax – The 2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia reveals that 35,870 children or more than 1 in 5 children in Nova Scotia were living in poverty in 2015. As primary author, Acadia University Professor Lesley Frank says, “We should celebrate the fact that 1,600…

  • Five lessons from the failing fight against child poverty

    Ontario vowed to reduce child poverty by 25 per cent between 2008 and 2013. It came nowhere close. What can we learn from that failure? It’s been seven years since the Ontario government announced its commitment to reduce child poverty by 25 per cent between 2008 and 2013. That same…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    The hidden epidemic of working poverty in Metro Vancouver

    We are often told that the solution to poverty is for the poor to “get a job” or for various sectors to create more jobs. But the reality is that a job is not a guaranteed path out of poverty. Many of the new jobs created in BC since the…

  • BC’s child poverty rate: Don’t cherry-pick the numbers

    It’s always welcome to see poverty identified as an important issue in our elections as it was in last Wednesday’s BC Leaders’ Debate. We want to see our political leaders challenging each other to do better on this file. However, in the debate—as well as in numerous media interviews—Premier Clark…

  • Growing Gap

    Study reveals Canada’s shameful Indigenous child poverty rates

    60% of First Nation children on reserve live in poverty CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Indigenous children in Canada are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study calculates…

  • Ontario Legislative Building Interior with green and wood seats and three big windows with green drapery curtains

    What will the throne speech say about poverty?

    Anti-poverty advocates and social policy wonks will be watching today’s throne speech for signs of how the government plans on addressing poverty in this complicated pandemic period. I, for one, am hoping the government chooses to leave behind notions of “deserving” and “undeserving” poor that have shaped social policy for…