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1. An Assessment of Federal Child Support Guidelines

   The Federal Child Support Guidelines implemented by the Canadian federal government in May 1997 lay out how the courts are to decide issues dealing with custody, child support, and related matters. The guidelines claim to be based on studies of the actual ...

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- Where do we draw the line?

   This paper is the latest in a series of studies on the measurement of poverty in Canada. It provides new estimates of poverty in Canada using the Basic Needs Line. It determines the trend in poverty over the past 40 years, and provides a fairly detailed ...

4. Explaining the cost of raising children

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The Fraser Institute’s publication of my research study, The Cost of Raising Children, generated considerable interest in the media last week. Shortly after the paper was released, I had many requests for interviews. In ...

5. The Cost of Raising Children

   The annual cost of raising a child is important information-for its own sake and also for public policy purposes. Such estimates can be helpful to parents or prospective parents. It can also inform policies related to child benefits and possible parental ...

6. The Economic Well-Being of Canadians: Is there a Growing Gap?

   This paper has two purposes. First and principally it is a critical examination of the evidence for a growing gap in Canada. The paper will attempt to look at inequality in a somewhat broader context than is customary. Evidence drawn largely from ...

7. What is Poverty? Providing Clarity for Canada

   In What is Poverty? Providing Clarity for Canada Sarlo finds that poverty, whether measured by income or consumption, has remained in the four to six per cent range since 1996. Sarlo points out that most descriptions of poverty deal with 'relative ...

8. Poverty in Canada: 2006 Update

   Basic needs poverty lines are intended to measure the number and proportion of Canadians who cannot afford the basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, shelter, and other household essentials. Since 1992, this measure has been an important ...

9. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

   In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...

10. Measuring Poverty in Canada

    Since the publication of Poverty in Canada in 1992 there has been a renewed debate about the definition and measurement of poverty in this country. It is understandable that some of the discussion has been heated and emotional as this is an important ...