[homeles_ot-l] Eng & Fr PDFs - 2009 National Report Card on Child Poverty

Wed Nov 25 19:07:14 EST 2009

FYI, report available in English and French.

Lynne Browne

Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness (ATEH)

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From: MAUND, Jacquie <JacquieMA at familyservicetoronto.org>
Date: 2009/11/24
Subject: [c2000-l] 2009 National Report Card on Child POverty
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Campaign 2000 Partners & Friends -

Please see below for today's release of National Report Card.

We're getting lots of media coverage in print, TV and radio -to get a
flavour click on 

http://news.google.ca/news/search?aq=f
<http://news.google.ca/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=ca&hl=en&q=Child+and
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If you haven't yet sent our message to your MP. please go to
www.campaign2000.ca <http://www.campaign2000.ca/> 

Media Release                                               November 24,
2009

Poverty Reduction Key to Canada's Economic Recovery

OTTAWA - Canada's economic recovery hinges on federal leadership to pull
recession victims out of the poor house and prevent Canadians from plunging
into deeper poverty, hunger and homelessness, says Campaign 2000's new
report card on child and family poverty.

Keep the Promise: Make Canada Poverty-Free looks at the nation's most recent
child and family after-tax poverty rate compared to 20 years ago, when
Parliament unanimously resolved to end child poverty by 2000, and finds
today's after-tax rate is 9.5 per cent, a slight budge from 11.9 per cent in
1989. 

"If Canada were a student, she would be in danger of dropping out," says
Campaign 2000's Laurel Rothman. "Following an unprecedented period of growth
since 1998, the small change in the rate of child and family poverty is
shocking.  

"As Canada develops strategies to foster economic growth and recovery, the
most strategic decision the federal government could make would be to take
leadership and set a target to lower the poverty rate."

The report card's key findings, available at www.campaign2000.ca
<http://www.campaign2000.ca/> , show Canada has far to go to prevent and
reduce poverty:

*         One in 10 children still live in poverty in Canada today. It's
worse for children living in First Nation's communities: one in four grow up
in poverty;

*         There are more working poor: 40 per cent of low-income children
live in families where at least one parent works full-time year round, up
dramatically from 33 per cent in the 1990s;

*         Child poverty is persistent across Canada: rates of child and
family poverty (LICO before-tax) are in the double digits in most provinces.

*         The gap between rich and poor has widened:  On average, for every
dollar the families in the poorest 10 per cent had, families in the richest
10 per cent had almost 12 times as much ($11.84) in 2007. 

"Canada could succeed if our federal government used public policy resources
to improve labour market options and make our tax system more progressive,"
says Ed Broadbent, the former New Democratic Party leader who moved the 1989
motion to end child poverty by the year 2000.

"All Canadians will benefit from less poverty," says Peggy Taillon,
President of the Canadian Council on Social Development. "As a society we
either share the collective responsibility to prevent child and family
poverty or we face rising costs in health care services, criminal justice
and education."

"Now that seven out of 10 provinces have committed to poverty reduction,
it's time for the federal government to exercise leadership and develop a
clear plan with targets and timetables," says Sid Frankel, Social Planning
Council of Winnipeg.

./p. 2

Jacquie Maund

Coordinator, Ontario Campaign 2000

Coordinator, Social Reform, Family Service Toronto

Tel 416-595-9230 x241

Fax 416-595-0242

355 Church St, Toronto M5B 1Z8

jacquiema at familyservicetoronto.org

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