[homeles_ot-l] Fwd: [odspaction-on] Ontario Campaign 2000 report card released Apr. 2nd

[Terrie]

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From: Dana Milne <milned at lao.on.ca>
Date: 2 Apr 2008 13:57
Subject: [odspaction-on] Ontario Campaign 2000 report card released Apr. 2nd
To: awillats at sympatico.ca, e-left at socialjustice.org,
odspaction-on at povnet.org, onr-announce at list.web.net, tdrc at tdrc.net

 FYI...


Dana Milne
Provincial Organizer
Income Security Advocacy Centre



 Ontario Campaign 2000 released its 2007 Report Card on child and family
poverty in Ontario today.

The report, entitled "*The Road Ahead: Poverty Reduction in Ontario*" (March
2008), finds that 1 in every 8 children in the province is living in poverty
when income is measured after taxes, that having to rely on social
assistance is "a guarantee of poverty", and that full-time, full-year work
at Ontario's new minimum wage of $8.75/hour generates earnings that are
approximately $3,000 below the poverty line. The report repeats Ontario
Campaign 2000's call for an effective poverty reduction strategy that sets a
minimum target of 25% reduction in the child poverty rate over the next five
years, and a minimum 50% reduction over ten years.

The full report is available on the national Campaign 2000 website at:
http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/rc07/2007_ON_Report_Card%20_Engl_Mar2008.pdf?x=115291
.

An accompanying news release can be found at:
http://action.web.ca/home/c2000/alerts.shtml?x=115290.




-- 
Terrie ( mocharebyl at gmail.com )
"If you see an injustice being committed, you aren't an observer, you are a
participant." June Callwood
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and
renders the present inaccessible.  Maya Angelou
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