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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...
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...
2015 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Lesley Frank
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 2015
Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the House of Commons' 1989 pledge to end child poverty by the year 2000. This year’s report—now 15 years after the pledge deadline—takes an in-depth look at child and family poverty in Nova Scotia and finds that both are still on the rise. The report also suggests that we are not likely to see a reversal of the trend toward increas...
2013 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia: 1989–2011
Author(s): Lesley Frank
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Nova Scotia
Publication Date: 2013
Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the government of Canada’s 1989 promise to end child poverty by the year 2000. This year’s report card examines the period 1989 to 2011 (the year for which the most recent data is available), and uncovers some troubling trends: child poverty rates are still higher for children under six, and for children living in female lone-paren...
The Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Card 2009 (1989–2007)
Author(s): Pauline Raven, Lesley Frank, Rene Ross
Publication Date: 2009
Since 1999, Nova Scotia Child Poverty Report Cards have recorded changes in child poverty rates to track progress on the government of Canada’s 1989 promise to end child poverty. This year’s report card examines the period 1989–2007. It also reviews changes for a later period (1997 to 2007) to assess the impact of the 1998 National Child Benefit initiative aimed at preventing and reducing child poverty. This examination of rates across periods...