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Jane Syvret: Campaign Report and Child Poverty

jane syvret: Jane Syvret plays with two of her three children in a park near their Toronto home, according to Toronto Star. Syvret, 27, who is of Indigenous and Black heritage, says her family is the face of the Campaign 2000 report. These ridings are also more likely to have high unemployment, low rates of labour force participation, more renters and people paying more than 30 per cent of their income on housing, says the report released Monday by Campaign 2000, a national coalition of more than 120 organizations dedicated to ending child poverty. Rick Madonik / Toronto Star The findings, based on the latest 2016 census and 2015 income tax data, suggest poverty is linked to persistent discrimination and systemic inequality, rather than luck, or poor individual choice, adds the report. She and her three young children live in Moss Park, part of Toronto Centre, the riding with the fourth highest child poverty rate in the country. Area single mother Jane Syvret, 27, who is of Indigenous and Black heritage, says her family is the face of the Campaign 2000 report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.