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Time to purge child poverty
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Dec. 2, 2011
Canadians have to keep their politicians’ feet to the fire on this shameful reality. Campaign 2000, a coalition of anti-poverty groups, issued its latest report card last week on the progress made to eradicate child poverty in the country. And it isn’t encouraging… the number of children living in poverty in Canada has dropped by only 20 per cent in the last 20 years, in spite of the fact the economy itself has more than doubled in that time, in spite of the pledge made by the House of Commons in 1989 to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000, and in spite of a further pledge in 2009 to eradicate all poverty. Clearly talk is cheap.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Eradicating poverty is attainable
Monday, July 25th, 2011
July 25, 2011
Researchers at the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives (CCPA) found that maintaining this system of poverty rather than eradicating it costs the province from five per cent to seven per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually. What other issue, taking such a chunk of revenues, would be treated with such indifference? Would there not be an outcry if these figures applied to other sectors? And what about the human cost to health and the suffering caused by social exclusion?
Tags: economy, ideology, poverty, standard of living
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