Child poverty

• Can government spending lift poor children from poverty? A new report from UNICEF suggests its possible.
(Huffington Post)
• Child poverty in Canada is more prevalent than the overall national poverty rate, according to a new report that ranks 18th among 35 industrialized nations when it comes to the gap between the two figures.
(CTV)
• Poverty can be tricky to define and quantify. By almost any standards a poor Canadian child is far better off than one living in most other countries.
(Toronto Star)
• If we believe the children are our future, then it might be time to put some money where our mouths are.
(huffingtonpost.ca)
• TORONTO — Canadians should be doing much more for children growing up in poverty, according to a new UNICEF report that finds Canada lags many other advanced countries.
(The Chronicle Herald)
• Ministers should instead focus on wider ways to measure deprivation than income, including family breakdown, addiction, and unemployment, the Centre for Social Justice said.
(Daily Telegraph)
• PLANS to tackle child poverty include a recommendation to introduce a 'living wage' across Milton Keynes.
(miltonkeynes.co.uk)
• Mr. Kristof did not address the core causes of poverty and social dysfunction among the Oceti Sakowin Oyate — the People of the Seven Council Fires — a people we know as the "Sioux," claims the Lakota People's Law Project.
(YAHOO!)
• A THINK-TANK formed to tackle child poverty has published a raft of recommendations.
(miltonkeynes.co.uk)
• Canada falls below most of its international peers when it comes to fighting child poverty, says a new report by the United Nations Children's Fund being released Tuesday. With a child poverty rate of 13.
(Toronto Star)