Rates of child and family poverty in Canada are on the rise, according to a new report. From 2021 to 2022, the child poverty rate in Canada rose by 2.5 percentage points, or a total of 195,170 ...

A novel approach to poverty is being examined to better help people struggling to make ends meet. A report, “Poverty in Canada Through a Deprivation Lens,” released by Food Banks Canada sheds ...

In consultation with city staff, we used the Market Basket Measure (MBM) poverty measure and drew on data from the 2021 Canada Census of Population available through the Community Data Program, and ...

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 ...

From 2015 to 2019, Toronto's child poverty rate fell from 29.1 per cent to 22.7 per cent, a decline the report says was largely attributed to the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) in ...