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"No cherries grow on our trees:" Social Policy Research P...
...It is a project that speaks to the realities of women’s lives, in particular the harsh realities of poverty and violence. It is also a project about you. Given the high rates of both poverty and viole...
Authors: METRAC; WACT;
Tags: women; poverty; gender; violence;
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“I’m finally there”: An examination of a feminist program working t...
One in seven Canadian women lives in poverty. There is a considerable body of research on the factors that cause women’s poverty in Canada and on how poverty affects women’s lives. There are also a nu...
Authors: Clare, Megan;
Tags: women; poverty; training and employment opportu...
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“Please Ask Me How I Am”: Experiences of Family Homelessness in the...
...tative-narrative approach. Major themes that emerged from the women''s life stories are elucidated: poverty, neglect, abuse, troubled interpersonal relationships, and mental health concerns. Surprisin...
Authors: Styron, Thomas H.; Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie; David...
Tags: family homelessness; single mothers; abuse; pov...
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1970s' Manitoba poverty experiment called a success
...they also declined. You can argue that accident and injury hospitalizations are strongly related to poverty."
The goal of the program, which cost $17 million, was to find out whether a guaranteed i...
Authors: CBC News;
Tags: experiment; poverty; health & community life; C...
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2005 Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference
Asset-building is an emerging area of social policy and practice. Its core idea is that to overcome poverty, opportunities to save and invest in a better future are as critical as income. Savings and ...
Authors: Canadian Social Welfare Policy Conference;
Tags: policy;poverty;income;asset-building;mental hea...
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A Community Growing Apart: Income Gaps and Changing Needs. Appendix...
Rental housing affordability has become a major issue in the 1990s, particularly in very large cities such as Toronto. A major gap - indeed a chasm – has developed between market rents and the incomes...
Authors: Golden, Anne;Canadian Council on Social Develop...
Tags: housing ;income;housing affordability;affordabl...
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A Gender Based Analysis on Poverty Reduction in Saint John: Moving On
This paper reflects the feedback given by men and women in poverty to provide community agencies and policy makers with key information about the challenges facing these individuals in poverty, and th...
Authors: Wright, Cathy;
Tags: gender based analysis; poverty; single men; sin...
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A Good Time to Focus on the Poor
Tanya Gulliver discusses the lack of affordable housing, growing poverty and homelessness in Toronto, Ontario in this article for election candidates.
Authors: Gulliver, Tanya;
Tags: population; poor; poverty; single men; single w...
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