Child poverty has not improved in the 17 years since the House of Commons unanimously passed a resolution to come up with a plan to end the problem, in fact, it’s only gotten worse.
The child poverty rate now stands at 18.5-percent, which is down from 2000 when it was 22.3-percent, but higher than than in 1989 when it was 15.8.
That’s all according to Campaign 2000, which has released its annual report card on child and family poverty which shows that 1.3-million children in Canada are living in poverty — or — nearly one in five children.
The report card also reveals that 60-percent of First Nations children on reserves live in poverty.
