Community: Solving Poverty
The National Council of Welfare is calling for a national anti-poverty strategy to ensure a successful future for Canada.
Canada in general is out of step with important developments in preventing and reducing poverty. Many other countries, and six Canadian provinces, have had the same debates about the same issues, including how to measure poverty, but they have found ways-remarkably similar ways-to move on to action and to achieve measurable progress. They are bringing poverty levels down, replacing human misery with opportunity and building stronger societies in the process. The NCW thinks it is necessary and possible for Canada to do the same.
Research and Publications
News
- 2011-09-30: Dollars and Sense of Solving Poverty - media coverage
- 2011-09-28: Focus on strategy to end poverty could save Canada billions of dollars
- 2011-09-28: The National Council of Welfare launches its latest report, The Dollars and Sense of Solving Poverty
- 2007-01-25: Solving Poverty ? it actually can be done!
- 2006-12-04: Homeless to Have a Say: National Council of Welfare Partners with Shelters across Canada
Sites of Interest
- Canadian Poverty Reduction Policies and Programs (Canadian Council on Social Development)
- Manitoba - All Aboard: Manitoba's Poverty Reduction Strategy
- New Brunswick - Overcoming Poverty Together
- Newfoundland and Labrador - Poverty Reduction Initiative
- Northwest Territories - Reducing Poverty in the NWT: Discussion and Engagement with Northerners