One in seven youths in Canada lives below the poverty line. That - TopicsExpress



          

One in seven youths in Canada lives below the poverty line. That is just shy of a million people. If that number isn’t startling enough, consider the fact that 25 years ago this week, in the House of Commons, MPs agreed unanimously to try to eradicate child poverty by the year 2000. Today, there are roughly the same amount of kids living below the poverty line. 16x9s Carolyn Jarvis takes a closer look at child poverty in Canada in Generation Poor this Saturday at 7pm.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:00:01 +0000

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