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Child poverty, 25 years later : We can fix this

17 Nov 2014

Until 2013, Campaign 2000 changes have created challenges for Ontario families, yet the partners who produce report cards, have relied on the commitment to poverty reduction has faltered, as in late-1990s’ annual release of “Incomes in Canada” for data on the Ontario, funding for childcare, education, affordable housing and rate and number of people living in poverty collected in social assistance [...] These Strategies use the Low Income Measure After Tax as the indicator goals guide the strategy, but an implementation plan is needed to track progress on the target to cut the rate of child poverty by to meet the urgent needs of Ontarians in poverty. [...] In the absence of means the LIM-AT for a household with one parent and one child was, for the duration of the 2008 poverty reduction strategy, set at $26,279 adjusted for inflation. [...] For the 2014 PRS to live up to its potential to reduce poverty in Ontario, The 2008 PRS set the goal of reducing poverty child poverty by the province must: 25% by 2013. [...] Prior to the cancellation of the Survey of Labour and Income be accompanied by urgent action to reduce poverty among Dynamics, the Ontario Deprivation Index (ODI) measured the number those most affected of people who “cannot afford a standard of living that most Ontarians take for granted based on a list of 10 questions on select necessities.”15 6 In 2011, the ODI showed that one in ten children w
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Authors

Khanna, Anita

ISBN
9781894250856
Pages
16
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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