Campaign 2000: Child Poverty Rate

child poverty rate: Campaign 2000 said while there has been a slight drop in the country's child poverty rate since the 2008-2009 recession, 967,000 children and their families are still unable to fulfil their basic needs, according to Times Colonist. Based on recent budget projections, the federal government "can afford to spend" on programs that would help prevent children from depending on food banks and homeless shelters, the group said and OTTAWA - Ottawa should funnel predicted multi-billion-dollar budget surpluses into helping Canadians who are struggling to make ends meet, an anti-poverty coalition said in a report released Tuesday. And more children lived in poverty in 2011 than in 1989, when the House of Commons unanimously resolved to end child poverty by 2000 14.3 per cent, up from 13.7 per cent, it said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.