In Nova Scotia child poverty decreased by less than one percent since
the 1989 promise to eradicate child poverty (by 2000) by the federal
government. That makes us the worst among all provinces.
the 1989 promise to eradicate child poverty (by 2000) by the federal
government. That makes us the worst among all provinces.
This explains why this year’s report is called Three Decades Lost.
In 2017 40,710 children lived in poverty in Nova Scotia. That gave
Nova Scotia the third-highest provincial child poverty rate in Canada,
and, at 24.2%, the highest rate in Atlantic Canada.
Whereas roughly one in four kids in Nova Scotia lives in poverty, for
the very young, children younger than two, that rate is one in three!
The report, that I would encourage everybody to download and read,
contains one devastating statistic after another. It’s numbing stuff.
The authors of the report know this, and issue the following reminder.