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Child Poverty Rose for Third Consecutive Year: Campaign 2000 Report
Nearly 30,000 more children fell below the poverty line in 2023, with rates highest among lone-parent families and Indigenous communities, advocates say.
- On Wednesday, the Child and Family Poverty Report Card said 1.4 million children live in poverty in 2025, with a rate of 18.3%.
- The report says gains from the 2016 Canada Child Benefit are eroding, with child poverty climbing since 2020 when pandemic benefits were temporary, and more than 1.2 million adults are in working poverty.
- Regional figures reveal nearly 2.5 million children live in food-insecure households, with children in lone-parent families facing 45.2% poverty; Nunavut's rate is nearly 39%.
- It urges the federal government to strengthen its poverty reduction strategy with a detailed action plan, clear timelines, and dedicated funding, as child poverty continues to rise in 2025.
- At the current pace, the report says it would take nearly 400 years to end child poverty, while food banks see nearly 2.2M monthly visits and marginalized groups face disproportionate impacts.
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The Toronto Star
Child poverty rose for third consecutive year: Campaign 2000 report
TORONTO - An organization that campaigns to end child poverty says a growing number of children are living in households that struggle to pay bills and buy food.
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EnBeauce.comAn organization campaigning to end child poverty claims that the number of children living in households that are struggling to pay their bills and buy food continues to increase
New Release: 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada
Investing in Tomorrow: A Future Without Poverty Campaign 2000 has released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, drawing on the latest national data to examine the state of child and family poverty across the country. More than two decades after Canada pledged to eliminate child poverty, progress is moving in the wrong direction. Child poverty rose for the third consecutive year, with nearly 30,000 additional children fall…
Child poverty rising for third straight year in Canada, report says
Child poverty in Canada rose for a third consecutive year in 2025, with nearly 30,000 more children falling below the poverty line, according to the latest Child and Family Poverty Report Card. The report says progress toward eliminating child poverty is not only stalling but reversing, with rates now approaching levels last seen in 2017, signalling an erosion of gains made after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit in 2016. The report s…
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