This report shows that 53,000 Alberta children lived below Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off (after-tax) in 2008, and that number is probably higher today due to the effects of the recession on our economy.The report traces economic consequences of living in poverty in Alberta, offers some recommendations and directions to move forward, and scans poverty-reduction strategies in other Canadian provinces and territories
Poverty remains a fact of life for many Canadians. Child poverty in particular is of grave concern, ...
On August 21st, the federal government announced that for the first time Canada would adopt an offic...
The case is aimed at providing students with an overview of the burden of poverty in Canada and the ...
The recent recession was challenging for all Alberta families but especially so for those with low a...
This report, authored by Jim Gurnett (in partnership with the ESPC, Public Interest Alberta, and the...
The Edmonton Social Planning Council, Public Interest Alberta, and the Alberta College of Social Wor...
77,595 children live in poverty in Alberta, Canada's wealthiest province. We Can Do Better outlines ...
Poverty is bad for the economy, leads to higher health care costs and takes a serious toll on human ...
This paper examines how a discourse around those living in poverty has been created, and its implica...
Since the end 1990s, jurisdictions across the world have adopted an innovative governance process ca...
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/unspun-whos-doing-what-about-poverty-reduc...
Using the example of B.C., this article shows how combined federal and provincial policies prevent e...
The government of Canada has adopted the Market Basket Measure (MBM) as the preferred poverty line i...
There is a lack of research on Canadian Social Assistance (SA) that focuses on education (through qu...
This paper discusses and describes measures of poverty and, on the basis of that discussion, propose...
Poverty remains a fact of life for many Canadians. Child poverty in particular is of grave concern, ...
On August 21st, the federal government announced that for the first time Canada would adopt an offic...
The case is aimed at providing students with an overview of the burden of poverty in Canada and the ...
The recent recession was challenging for all Alberta families but especially so for those with low a...
This report, authored by Jim Gurnett (in partnership with the ESPC, Public Interest Alberta, and the...
The Edmonton Social Planning Council, Public Interest Alberta, and the Alberta College of Social Wor...
77,595 children live in poverty in Alberta, Canada's wealthiest province. We Can Do Better outlines ...
Poverty is bad for the economy, leads to higher health care costs and takes a serious toll on human ...
This paper examines how a discourse around those living in poverty has been created, and its implica...
Since the end 1990s, jurisdictions across the world have adopted an innovative governance process ca...
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/unspun-whos-doing-what-about-poverty-reduc...
Using the example of B.C., this article shows how combined federal and provincial policies prevent e...
The government of Canada has adopted the Market Basket Measure (MBM) as the preferred poverty line i...
There is a lack of research on Canadian Social Assistance (SA) that focuses on education (through qu...
This paper discusses and describes measures of poverty and, on the basis of that discussion, propose...
Poverty remains a fact of life for many Canadians. Child poverty in particular is of grave concern, ...
On August 21st, the federal government announced that for the first time Canada would adopt an offic...
The case is aimed at providing students with an overview of the burden of poverty in Canada and the ...