Poverty in Canada Resource List

 

2010 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada

2010 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Ontario

Aboriginal Peoples and Poverty in Canada: Can Provincial Governments Make a Difference?

Aboriginal Women and Homelessness

About the HIFIS Initiative

Adults with Developmental Disabilities Experiencing or at Risk of Homelessness

Aging in Poverty in Canada

An Act to Eliminate Poverty in Canada

An Economy Out of Shape: Changing the Hourglass

Are Wage Supplements the Answer to the Problems of the Working Poor?

A Basic Income Plan for Canadians with Severe Disabilities

Building Solutions to Homelessness: A Business Perspective on Homelessness and
Toronto's Housing Crisis

Calm Before the Storm The Great Recession’s Impact on Homelessness

Canada at 150: The Social Agenda

Canada's Poverty Hole 2010

Canada's Shelters for Abused Women

Case Studies of the Regional Mobilization of Population Health

Case Study – Child Poverty in Canada

Case Study – Health Promotion in Canada

Case Study – Social Return on Investment

Case Study – Tackling Poverty in Hamilton

Case Study – Victoria B.C.

Characteristics of Persons Who Are Homeless for the First Time

Child and Spousal Support: Maintenance Support Survey Statistics 2009-2010

Child Health, Poverty, and the Environment

Child Poverty and Schools

Child Poverty in Canada

Chronic Low Income and Low-income Dynamics Among Recent Immigrants

COMMON OCCURRENCE -THE IMPACT OF HOMELESSNESS ON WOMEN’S HEALTH

Community-Based Programs for Homeless Adults with Concurrent Disorders: “What

Works for Whom, Where, Why, and How?"

A Community-Based Solution to Homelessness

A Comparison of Rural and Urban Workers Living in Low-Income

A comprehensive assessment of the lives and well-being of children and adolescents

in the economically advanced nations

Concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

The Cost of Eating in B.C.

The Cost of Poverty

The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario

Cost of Poverty and the Value of Investment

The Cost of Poverty and the Value of Investment - Bibliography

The Cost of Poverty in Nova Scotia

The Criminalization of Poverty

The Current State of Family Finances

Cutting Through the Fog: Why is it so hard to make sense of poverty measures?

Defining and Enumerating Homelessness in Canada

Differences in Canadian and US Income Levels, 1961 to 2008

Does Money Matter – Determining the Happiness of Canadians

Down but Not Out: Reforming Social Assistance Rules that Punish the Poor for Saving

The Dynamics of Women’s Poverty in Canada

Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability of Immigrants in Canada  

Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers: Canadian Evidence from a Large Administrative Database on Firm Closures and Mass Layoffs

Earnings of Women With and Without Children

Education – A Report of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Employment Among the Disabled

European Typology of Homelessness and housing exclusion

Evaluation of the National Child Benefit Reinvestments Initiative

The Evolution of Elderly Poverty in Canada

The failure of charitable school- and community-based nutrition  programmes to feed hungry children

Failing the Homeless: Barriers in the Ontario Disability Support Program for Homeless People with Disabilities

Families Count – Profiling Canada's Families

Family Homelessness: Causes and Solutions

Family Security in Insecure Times: Poverty Reduction as Poverty Prevention

Family Violence: Department of Justice Canada Overview Paper

Family Violence and Homelessness

The Federal Contribution to Reducing Poverty in Canada

Federal Minimum Wages and Low-Income Workers in Canada

Federal Poverty Reduction Plan

First Comprehensive Review of the Market Basket Measure of Low Income:

Final Report - June 2010

First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children and Youth: TIME TO ACT  

Gender Analysis in Community-Based Poverty Reduction

Gender Budget Initiatives – Why they Matter

Gender Income Gap

The Good Food Box: A Case Study of an Alternative Non-Profit System for Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Distribution

Group Differences in Educational Attainment Among the Children of Immigrants

Has Higher Education Among Young Women Substantially Reduced the Gender Gap in Employment and Earnings

The Health of First Nations Living Off-Reserve, Inuit, and Métis

Adults in Canada: The Impact of Socio-economic Status on Inequalities in

Health

The High Cost of Homelessness

The High Education/Low-Income Paradox

Home Ownership Over the Life Course of Canadians

Homeless Children and Youths in Canada

Homeless People and the Justice System in Toronto

Homelessness and Crack Use

Homelessness and Health

Homelessness and Hepatitis C

Homelessness and Housing Realities for Inuit

Homelessness and Mental Illness

Homelessness in Canada: Past, Present, Future

Homelessness in a Growth Economy

The Homelessness Partnering Strategy

Homesick: Gender, Youth and Homelessness in Toronto The Health Experiences of Young Women in Exceptional Circumstances

House of Commons committee study on the federal contribution to reducing poverty in Canada

Household food insecurity, 2007–2008

Housing Vulnerability and Health

How are Canadians Really doing? A Closer Look at Select Groups   

How is Poverty Measured in Canada? 

Human Development Report – 2010

Hunger Count 2010

Immigrant Economic and Social Outcomes

The Immigrant Experience of Poverty in Toronto Neighbourhoods of Concentrated

Disadvantage

Immigrant Low-Income Rates

The Impact of Poverty on Health, 2003

Income disparities in health-adjusted life expectancy for Canadian adults, 1991 to 2001

THE INCOME GAP BETWEEN ABORIGINAL PEOPLES AND THE REST OF CANADA

In from the Margins

Income of Canadians, 2008

Income Inequality and Redistribution in Canada: 1976 to 2004

Income Instability of Lone Parents, Singles and Two-Parent Families in Canada, 1984 to 2004 

Income Security and Stability During Retirement in Canada

Intergenerational Education Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants  

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

LearnSave Final Report

Links to Aboriginal Social Welfare Resources

Literacy Achievement in Small Grade 1 Classes in High-Poverty Environments

Lone Parent Success Story Not Because of Tough Love

Long-run Inequality and Annual Instability of Men's and Women's Earnings in Canada  

Low Income Definitions

Low Income in Canada: 2000-2007 Using the Market Basket Measure

Low Income Lines, 2008-2009

Lower Taxes for the Poor – TD Bank Says

Mending Canada’s frayed social safety net

Mental Health and Homelessness

Ministry of Community and Social Services: Results-based Plan Briefing Book 2010-11

National Housing Report Card

No Action; No Progress:  Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action

Report on Canada's Progress in Implementing Priority Recommendations made by

the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 2008

The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle

Offshorability and Wages in the Service Sector

Offshoring and Employment in Canada: Some Basic Facts

On Oct. 15/08, Madam Justice Carol Ross of B.C. decided that Victoria's homeless could erect shelters in city parks as part of their right to life, liberty and security.  

Ontario’s Long-Term Report on the Economy

Ontario’s Poverty Reduction Strategy

Ontario's Social Assistance Rates – Nov-Dec 2010

OVERCOMING POVERTY: PROMOTING LITERACY IN CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES

Participation in Private Retirement Savings Plans

Physical and Sexual Violence Rates

POLITICS, POLITICAL PLATFORMS AND CHILD POVERTY IN CANADA

Poor access to disability supports perpetuates cycle of poverty

Possibilities and Prospects: The Debate Over a Guaranteed Income

Poverty – A Short History

Poverty and Childhood Poverty in Canada

Poverty and Disability in Canada

Poverty and Labour

Poverty and Mental Illness

Poverty and the extent of child obesity in Canada, Norway and the United States

Poverty among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story

Poverty, Income Inequality, and Health in Canada

Poverty Reduction: A Necessary Component of the Federal Government’s Mental Health Strategy for Canadians

Poverty Reduction in Canada: The Federal Role

Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs

Poverty Reduction Initiatives in Canada

Poverty Reduction Strategies in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador

The Power of CED Throughout Canada – 13 Inspiring Stories

The Power of Taxes – The Case for Investing in Canadians

Precarious Housing in Canada - 2010

Preventing Poverty, Promoting Prosperity

A Profile of High-Income Canadians

A PROFILE OF THE WORKING POOR IN CANADA

Prosperity, Inequality, and Poverty

Providing Timely and Effective Support to Homeless Veterans

Population Health as a Framework for Public Health Practice

Public Health Units and Poverty

PUBLIC SPACES, FAMILY PLACES– ESSENTIAL TO CANADA’S CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Putting Policy into Practice - Poverty and People With Serious Mental Illness

The Racialization of Poverty in Canada: Implications for Section 15 Charter protection

Recommendations for an Ontario Income Security Review

Recreation and Children and Youth Living in Poverty: Barriers, Benefits and Success Stories

Reducing Lone-Parent Poverty

Replacing Family Income During Retirement Years

Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada

Report on the Perceptions of Poverty and Homelessness in Canada

Risk Factors for Homelessness

Rural Poverty in Canada

Sickness, Disability, and Work – Breaking the Barriers

Sixty and Single in Ontario

A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty Among Recent Immigrants to Canada

Social Assistance, Pension, and Tax Credit Rates. 2010

Social Assistance Statistical Report, 2007 (pub 2010)

Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts

Solving Poverty:  Four cornerstones of a workable national strategy for Canada

A Statistical Profile of Poverty in Canada

Steps Off the Street: solutions to street homelessness

Street Youth in Canada

Structural Solutions to Address Child Poverty

A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada

Summary Report: Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy Consultations

Trends and Issues in Affordable Housing and Homelessness

Trends in Drop-Out Rates and Labour Market Outcomes

The Trouble With Housing for Low-Income People

Two Solutions for Urban Poverty

Vibrant Communities Evaluation

Victimization and Special Challenges of Women Living on or Near the Streets of Toronto

Welfare Benefit Levels in Ontario – Jul-Sept 2010

Women and Homelessness

Women and Poverty Fact-Sheet

Women in Canada

Women, Peace, and Security

Women, Poverty, and Homelessness in Canada

Women Marginalized by Poverty and Violence

Women's Income and Poverty

Women's Perspectives on Poverty

Women's Poverty in Cities

When Working is not enough to Escape Poverty

Where's Home - 2010

Who's Hungry 2010

Why Are Youth from Lower-income Families Less Likely to Attend University? Evidence from Academic Abilities, Parental Influences, and Financial Constraints

The Working Poor and the Role of Precarious Employment

Young Men the Face of Poverty

YOUNG WOMEN, WORK, AND THE NEW ECONOMY

Youth Homelessness in Canada: The Road to Solutions

Youth Leaving Care, How do They Fare?

Zero Dollar Linda

New as of December 1/10

Approaches to Measuring - Community Change Indicators

Building a Resilient Ontario: Year Two 25-in-5 Report

The Children Left Behind - UNICEF

The Financial and Human Costs of Canada's Tough on Crime Agenda

Ontario's Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy

Ontario's Social Assistance Review

Recession-Proof - Canada's 100 Best Paid CEOs

Rise of Canada's Richest 1%

New as of January 1/11

Immigrant low-income rates: The role of market income and government transfers

People’s Review Panel - Getting the Ontario Social  Assistance Review Issues Right

Vertical Poverty