Poverty Awareness in York Region

Toronto Star Article: Ontario Must Commit to Fighting Poverty


How is a single mom with one child supposed to feed and house herself and her child on a monthly benefit of $987, asks Sarah Blackstock

March 15, 2006.

Every year there are numerous reports documenting the unacceptable and unnecessary levels of poverty across the province. One in seven people in Ontario are poor.

Report after report, rally after rally, plea after plea urge the McGuinty government to take action. Specifically, anti-poverty activists are calling for substantial increases to social assistance rates and the end of the deduction of the National Child Benefit Supplement from families on social assistance - something the Liberals promised to do.

But anti-poverty activists barely get a word out before government representatives are insisting "fiscal restraints" have tied their hands.

While the deficit is not unimportant, it cannot be paid for on the backs of the poor; people who themselves face such dire fiscal restraints that compromise their health, security and well-being.

To read the entire article, go to: tinyurl.com/qdnbf

If You Wonder What Life in Poverty Is Like, These Recordings Tell it All

Please feel free to download and send to others. These programs are being burned to CD and sent to MPP's

Maggie Hughes
"the Other Side"
93.3 cfmu-fm tuesday's at 12:30
cfmu.mcmaster.ca
Hamilton

OCAP RADIO

"Other Side" radio show.

On the Special Diet and problems getting it.

Hamilton Round Table on Poverty Audio of presentations made at Hamilton City Hall about the special diet cuts, poverty, and surviving on welfare.