Tuesday
Jul022013
Is poverty inevitable for Canada's Indigenous children?
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Canada ranks 25th among the 30 countries in the OECD with regard to child poverty. Among immigrant, racialized and Indigenous communities the child poverty rate even higher than the Canadian average. In particular, 50% (HALF!) of status First Nations children live in poverty. This is unacceptable.
categorized in Kids' Health, Politics, Values and tagged with CCPA, Canada, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Save the Children, child poverty, children, poverty