Child poverty rate has actually dropped by a third since 1986.
child poverty
July 22, 2016
3:00AM
Enhanced child benefit shuffles money among middle-class families via an expensive bureaucracy.
December 22, 2015
3:12PM
Campaign 2000 is crudely measuring income inequality, not poverty.
November 28, 2013
2:00AM
Every year around this time theres a flurry of studies, reports and media stories about the state of poverty in Canada, especially child poverty. We are told that as many as one-seventh of Canada's kids live in poverty. And the accompanying descriptions of the predicament of those children paint a picture of hunger and of serious deprivation.
December 1, 2003
2:00AM
Children poverty is a vital issue for Canada. There are Canadian children that go without basic needs. If we as a society are going to help those most in need we must have an accurate depiction of the true depth of the problem. That is where Campaign 2000, a coalition of antipoverty groups, gets it wrong. They estimate child poverty using flawed measures which hinder us from determining those who are most in need and therefore how best to help them.