Learning from Success: Canada’s Poverty Strategy
Canada is at a critical turning point for the 4.9 million people in this country who are living in poverty.
Canada is at a critical turning point for the 4.9 million people in this country who are living in poverty.
The much anticipated arrival of the return of the long-form census has been greeted with such excitement and enthusiasm across Canada that the StatsCan website crashed because of the sheer number of responses.
How can you connect the dots between the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals, the calls for a national anti-poverty plan in Canada and CWP’s newly updated Poverty Progress Profiles?
Did you know that British Columbia is the only province without any government intention to create an anti-poverty strategy? Or that in 2014 Newfoundland and Labrador was tied with Saskatchewan for having the second lowest poverty rate in Canada? In…