#child poverty

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Council Backs Local Charity Pelican Parcels to Help More Families

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Toronto child poverty rates rise for third straight year: ‘How can it be acceptable?’

The Social Planning Toronto report includes profiles of all 25 wards to help residents understand what child poverty looks like in each neig

The rate of child and family poverty in Toronto rose 0.4 percentage points to 25.7 per cent. Between 2022 and 2023, 1,800 children became impoverished. In total, 119,690 children in Toronto live in poverty. The report is based on the most recently available census and tax filer data.

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“Right now the city of Toronto is the only level of government that's listening to us,” said Jin Huh, executive director of SPT. At a provincial and federal level, there has been “concerning backtracking,” she said. 

“There is more of an emphasis on defence and global concerns more than what working people and struggling people are dealing with.”

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All wards in Toronto have impoverished children living in them, though there are concentrated pockets in northwest Toronto, Scarborough and the downtown core, the report found. Nine of the city’s wards had a child poverty rate of 30 per cent or higher. Toronto Centre, Humber River—Black Creek and Scarborough—Guildwood all have rates higher than 34 per cent. The ward with the lowest rate is Parkdale—High Park, at 15.3 per cent.

According to census data highlighted in the report, Indigenous, racialized, immigrant and newcomer children and children in temporary households face the highest rates of poverty because of “long-standing systemic inequities,” including discrimination while seeking employment, housing and access to services. 

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“How can it be acceptable that one in four children are living in poverty in this wealthy city?” 

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Child poverty in Britain reaches ever higher levels but everyone around me thinks it's fine to have some prick on a literal throne of gold steal millions from the entire nation.

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Why We Must Address Extreme Poverty Now

The Global Poverty Crisis: A Call to Action If you think you are poor, you are probably right. If you are struggling to make ends meet, you are not alone. Get very angry that so many have so little while so few have so much. Get very angry about that. Around 700 million people live on less than $2.15 a day. That’s right: $2.15. This is what the World Bank calls extreme poverty. These people…

Why We Must Address Extreme Poverty Now

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It's good news that the two-child benefit cap will be scrapped.

All credit should go to those who have campaigned against the cap since it was introduced.