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Author(s): Randy Robinson, Ricardo Tranjan, Tania Oliveira
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Campaign 2000
Publisher: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2021
Ontario is a wealthy province in a wealthy country, yet child poverty remains a pressing social concern in every community. In 2019, the most recent year for which data are available, one in six children across the province lived with the day-to-day reality of never having enough. Despite recent progress—the child poverty rate fell from 23.4% in 2013 to 17.6% in 2019—half a million children still lived in poverty in 2019. The number of families l...