Thought for the Day
Sep. 28th, 2011 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bcholmesIt would have taken $12.6 billion to give the 3.5 million Canadians living in poverty enough income to live above the poverty line in 2007.
And yet Canadians spent at least double that amount treating the consequences of poverty that year, says the National Council of Welfare.
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Provincially, Quebec's universal $7-a-day child-care program is credited for cutting the poverty rate of single-parent families by 15 percentage points between 1997 and 2007.
— "Canada urged to spend smarter to cut poverty", Toronto Star
The National Council of Welfare is a government agency reporting to the Minister of National Health and Welfare.