The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives based its report on tax filing data from 2022 showing that year recorded the ...

Prince Edward Island had the fourth lowest child poverty rate in Canada in 2022, but the authors of the newly released child ...

P.E.I. had the fourth-lowest child poverty rate in Canada in 2022, but the authors of the latest child and family report card for the province say that is no reason to celebrate. They say that in 2022 ...

A new report card is sounding the alarm on childhood poverty in Nova Scotia. More than two in five Nova Scotian children are living in food-insecure households, according to Statistics Canada—a ...

Poverty is a policy choice – one that is inconsistent with Canada’s human-rights obligations. It has been nearly 50 years since Canada, with the support of all provinces, committed under the UN ...

Althea waits in line at a local food bank in Winnipeg. Her youngest son, less than six months old, is bundled up asleep in a stroller and she holds her two-year-old in her arms. Nearby, her oldest son ...

In 2021, the New York City metro area led the nation in the number of people living in plumbing poverty—a staggering 56,900 people—followed by Los Angeles (45,900 people) and San Francisco ...

The U.S. has also lagged behind Canada, where there has been a consistently ... And women are more likely to live in poverty, regardless of whether they’re working or not. Five percent of ...

Calls for a new role championing child poverty at the highest levels of local government, health and social care have been ...