poor families – The Afro News https://theafronews.com Voice of Unity Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:01:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Liberals Must keep their Promise to end Income-Splitting https://theafronews.com/liberals-must-keep-their-promise-to-end-income-splitting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liberals-must-keep-their-promise-to-end-income-splitting Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:57:58 +0000 https://www.theafronews.com/?p=14339 Liberals Must keep their Promise to end Income-Splitting

Provides relatively little tax relief for low-income families, and skirts single parents altogether

More of Canada’s children are living in poverty than ever before. A new report reveals that child poverty rates in Canada remain unconscionably high. Almost one-third of children in Toronto live in low-income households. Population measures of child health in Canada are also troubling, including above average rates of infant and under-five mortality and below average marks on indices of child well-being as compared to high-income country peers.

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