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2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Lesley Frank, Laura Fisher, Christine Saulnier
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Campaign 2000
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2021
The 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia adds to a growing list of prior report cards that mostly tell the same story. Children’s poverty is family poverty. For many years there has been close to 1 in 4 children living in families with incomes below the Low-Income Measure poverty line in Nova Scotia. For many years Nova Scotia has had the highest rate of child poverty in Atlantic Canada, and the third-highest provincial rat...
Working for a Living, Not Living for Work
Author(s): Christine Saulnier
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2018
This report provides updated living wage calculations for families living in Atlantic Canada. Covering the costs to raise a family in the Maritimes requires two adults to be working full-time earning a living wage of $19 an hour in Halifax, $18.18 in Saint John and $17.75 in Antigonish. Since 2016, the living wage rate in Halifax decreased very slightly from $19.17, increased slightly in Antigonish from $17.30. The wages did not change very much...
Unappreciated and Underpaid: Early Childhood Educators in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Christine Saulnier, Lesley Frank
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2019
This report provides a snapshot of what it is like for Early Childhood Educators (ECE) to work in the Early Learning and Child Care sector in Nova Scotia. Understanding which factors contribute to employers’ ability to recruit and retain highly-educated ECEs is critical to the provision of care that families depend on across the province.  
2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Lesley Frank, Christine Saulnier
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2017
This year’s Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia identifies a slight decrease in child poverty, with 1,600 children lifted out of poverty between 2014 and 2015. Overall, this decrease represented less than a percentage point change, with 21.6% of Nova Scotia children living in poverty. Nova Scotia had the third-highest provincial child poverty rate, and the highest rate in Atlantic Canada. Poverty rates in Nova Scotia do vary wi...
Child and Family Poverty in Halifax
Author(s): Katherine Ryan, Christine Saulnier
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2017
This addendum to the 2017 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia finds that 13,690 children, almost one in five, were living in poverty in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) in 2015. At 18.8%, Halifax has the 7th highest child poverty rate among the 25 large Canadian cities. There are five communities within HRM that have child poverty rates between 35 and 40%.
Pathways Into and Out of Homelessness: Domestic Violence and Housing Security for Immigrant Women
Author(s): Wilfreda E. Thurston, Amrita Roy, Barbara Clow, David Este, Tess Gordey, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Liza McCoy, Rachel Rapaport Beck, Christine Saulnier, Lesley Carruthers
Publication Date: 2013
Housing insecurity is a major barrier to leaving domestic violence; it may force abused women to live in inadequate conditions or to return to their abusers. Immigrant women face additional barriers. Longitudinal interviews with 37 abused immigrant women living in three Canadian cities investigated key causes of housing insecurity. Results show a need to target systemic factors, a diversity of issues foregrounded along pathways into and out of ho...
The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Angella MacEwen, Christine Saulnier
Publication Date: 2010
The Nova Scotia Government’s 2009 Poverty Reduction Strategy sets out dual goals of reducing poverty and creating opportunities for prosperity. Inherent in this vision is an understanding that when we help those in need, we make Nova Scotia a better place to live for everyone. As has been so aptly demonstrated by the research of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book The Spirit Level, money spent on reducing poverty and inequality is an...