Nova Scotia has a slightly higher rate of child poverty than it did in 1989 when the House of Commons voted to end it by the year 2000.

"It's not keeping in place with inflation."

An impoverished Halifax-area couple have regained custody of their toddler daughter, after a judge declared: "There is a difference between parents who are poor, and poor parents."

Poverty continues to be an issue many Nova Scotians want addressed during the provincial election.

Poverty in Nova Scotia is an issue that the provincial food bank hub wants front and centre during the election campaign.