Child Poverty Report Card

• N.S. child poverty rates dropped sharply in 2020, ‘almost entirely’ due to pandemic relief

  While child poverty rates in Nova Scotia declined by 24.3 per cent in 2020, a new report warns that it was largely due to temporary programs and more permanent measures are needed.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2023
  
• Pandemic support lowered B.C.’s child poverty rate but inflation causing new woes: report

  Child poverty decreased in British Columbia in 2020 due to provincial and federal government benefits provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, an advocacy group says.

  Politics

  Feb 14, 2023
  
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• 1 in 5 children in B.C. live in poverty: report

  The report found that since 2015, B.C.’s child poverty rate has exceeded the Canadian average.

  Nov 21, 2017