The story of child poverty in Canada is very much an urban story. One out of every 10 children living in urban areas was poor in 2010, compared to one in 20 children living in non-urban areas. Three quarters (or 76%) of all poor children in Canada lived in one of the urban centres shown [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Children & youth'
Vancouver child poverty rate is second-highest in Canada
May 8th, 2013 · Iglika Ivanova · Comments Off · Children & youth, Poverty, inequality & welfare
Tags: child poverty·living wage·poverty
BC’s social infrastructure house of cards
February 23rd, 2013 · Keith Reynolds · Comments Off · Children & youth, Education, Poverty, inequality & welfare
In her report on BC’s 2013 budget CCPA-BC economist Iglika Ivanova concluded that the province’s financial statement focused on balancing the budget at the expense of British Columbians’ present and future wellbeing. The following are a few examples of this. Last Tuesday’s budget continues a 12 year record of systematically undermining the province’s social infrastructure. [...]
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RIP Clyde Hertzman
February 11th, 2013 · Seth Klein · 2 Comments · Children & youth
As many of you have likely heard, late last week we at the CCPA lost a great friend, and Canada lost one of its greatest advocates for children: See here and here. The sudden and untimely passing of Clyde Hertzman comes as a terrible shock. Clyde was the life partner of our former Chair and [...]
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Seeking a Real Families First Agenda this First BC Family Day
February 7th, 2013 · Seth Klein · Comments Off · Children & youth, Economy, Employment & labour, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Taxes
By Seth Klein and Adrienne Montani On February 11, British Columbians will enjoy a well-deserved new stat holiday. With the inaugural Family Day, Premier Christy Clark has made good on a promise made during her bid for the BC Liberal leadership. The winter stretch needed a new long weekend, and many will appreciate this new-found [...]
Tags: child poverty·children·living wage·minimum wage·poverty·welfare
Plan for $10 a day child care striking a chord with British Columbians
October 15th, 2012 · Rita Chudnovsky · Comments Off · Children & youth, Women
More than thirty years ago, the women’s movement put child care on the public agenda. And while there have been important successes along the way, it can get depressing for grandmothers like me to see so little political progress. Parent fees are too high, staff wages are too low, there are nowhere near enough spaces [...]
Time to Rethink The Way We Fund Higher Education
October 9th, 2012 · Iglika Ivanova · Comments Off · Children & youth, Economy, Education, Employment & labour, Provincial budget & finance, Taxes
This September, like every year, a new group of high school graduates headed to college or university to pursue higher education. But today’s generation of students is in for a very different experience from the ones their parents had. On campuses across the country shiny new buildings are popping up, bearing corporate logos or the [...]
Tags: cost of education·Education·higher education·role of government·student debt·tuition·university
Services for at-risk youth in BC: moving from dysfunction to effective support
September 12th, 2012 · Diana Guenther · 2 Comments · Children & youth, First Nations & Aboriginal
Guest blogger Diana Guenther drew on extensive work experience in social services to develop her Masters of Urban Studies thesis on improving services for at-risk youth in BC. She shares some of her key recommendations here: Having worked with at risk youth for 15 years and in three different countries, I have always been quite [...]
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Cost of Learning Growing Faster than Incomes
September 11th, 2012 · Iglika Ivanova · Comments Off · Children & youth, Education, Employment & labour
A new report by the CCPA, Eduflation and the High Cost of Learning, shows that average university tuition bill in Canada has grown three times faster than inflation over the last 20 years. It’s also outpaced the growth of family incomes, making university considerably less affordable for the average Canadian family than it used to [...]
Tags: affordability·cost of education·cost of learning·Education·higher education·post-secondary education·student debt·student loans·tuition fees·university
The case for exempting child support from welfare
July 20th, 2012 · Kendra Milne · Comments Off · Children & youth, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Women
Based on recent announcements, it seems that the Ministry of Social Development is in the mood to address some of the long-standing problems within BC’s welfare system (although welfare rates remain distressingly low). Seth Klein recently recapped the Ministry’s June 11th announcement, which set out almost 30 proposed changes to the system. More recently, the [...]
Seven reasons why you should support a move to low tuition fees for higher education
May 29th, 2012 · Iglika Ivanova · 11 Comments · Children & youth, Economy, Education, Employment & labour, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Privatization, P3s & public services
Much of the media coverage of the Quebec student protests has dismissed the protestors as cranky middle and upper-middle class children trying to protect their unfair privilege. And in fact, the vast majority of today’s university students do come from relatively well-off families. But rather than weakening their position, this supports the protestors’ claims that [...]
