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First Nations’ well-being gap getting worse
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
July 13, 2010
In a report quietly released recently, the federal government acknowledged that “there has been little or no progress” in overall community well- being among First Nation and Inuit communities since 2001… Among the bottom 100 Canadian communities, 96 were First Nations… there’s what Graham describes as the “curse of aid” — that large fiscal transfers to reserves have created dependency and fostered unaccountable governance… “If this isn’t the top issue of our social policy agenda, what is?”
Tags: Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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