Poverty Reduction Plan: Sarah Blackstock

Sarah Blackstock: However, they want NDP Leader Andrea Horwath to withhold support for the Liberals budget, released Thursday, unless the government increases the Ontario child benefit by $200 per child this year to $1,310 Ontario child benefit by $200 per child this year to $1,310, as originally promised in the its five-year poverty reduction plan, according to The Star. There are a lot of very positive measures in this budget, said Sarah Blackstock of the 25 in 5 Network for Poverty Reduction and Anti-poverty activists are welcoming the Wynne governments first steps to transform Ontarios $8.3 billion welfare system into a program that helps more people, including the disabled, escape poverty through employment. The Liberals are proposing to increase the benefit by just $100 this July and by another $100 in July 2014, as announced last year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.