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1. A Critical Assessment of Canada’s Official Poverty Line

   In November 2018 the Liberal government selected an existing low-income indicator as Canada’s first official measure of poverty. The government chose this indicator, the Market Basket Measure (MBM), to play a key role in the government’s new Poverty ...

2. If we want to end poverty, we need to properly measure it

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region record, Guelph Mercury, North Bay Nugget and Hamilton Spectator Every year around this time there’s a flurry of studies, reports and media stories about the state of poverty in Canada, especially child poverty. We are told ...

3. Poverty in Canada, 2nd Edition

   This revised edition of Poverty in Canada is a provocative challenge to current approaches to defining and measuring poverty. It includes an update section with new data for all the key tables along with an accompanying commentary. Like the first edition, ...