Poverty: Families and Children

poverty: It says the closest runner-up is Montreal, where 25 per cent of children were living in poverty that year, according to Hamilton Spectator. A coalition of groups including the Children Aid Society of Toronto issued the report as the city weighs up to 600 million in cuts to programs and services such as community housing, transit and student nutrition. The report, titled Divided City Life in Canada Child Poverty Capital, says 133,000 children in Toronto 27 per cent were living in low-income families in 2014, the year the data were collected. It says racialized families, new immigrant families, single-parent families and families with disabilities are up to three times more likely to live in poverty. The groups are urging Toronto city council to follow through on its poverty-reduction strategy and address its fiscal shortfall to prevent cutbacks to social services. Only half of children in families with an annual income of less than 30,000 were found to participate in out-of-school art or sports programs, compared with 93 per cent of students in families with an income of 100,000 or more. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.