Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Child poverty

  • Can government spending lift poor children from poverty? A new report from UNICEF suggests its possible.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Rates of child deprivation and poverty in Ireland compare favourably with other developed countries but Unicef has waned the worst is yet to come.
  • (Irish Examiner)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • PLANS to tackle child poverty include a recommendation to introduce a 'living wage' across Milton Keynes.
  • (miltonkeynes.co.uk)
  • 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)
  • A THINK-TANK formed to tackle child poverty has published a raft of recommendations.
  • (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!)
  • 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)

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