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Family Poverty and Child Poverty

child poverty: This remains true despite a pledge in Ottawa, made exactly 25 years ago today , to eliminate child poverty by 2000 and the province promise in 2008 to reduce poverty by 25 per cent by 2013, according to The Star. More than 1.3 million children across the country 550,000 of them in Ontario live this way, according to authors of the 2014 report card on child and family poverty and One in five Ontario children still faces life in poverty, according to a new study. The national problem has not just lingered. It is worse than it was in 1989. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.