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"It is once again my honour and pleasure to present the National Advisory
Council on Poverty’s 2022 report on the progress of Opportunity for All –
Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy.
This year the Council sought out deep conversations on a wide range of issues.
We hosted 7 conversations with more than 1,000 people across the country about
the underlying and overlapping causes and impacts of poverty. We then hosted a
series of 8 small group sessions where people with lived expertise of poverty
could share their personal stories. We heard about the struggle, resilience,
frustration, and perseverance that is poverty in Canada. Those conversations
and the insights that the participants shared are the foundation of this
report.
This year we collectively talked about all things poverty.This included the
reality of inadequate benefits that are hard to access; our shredded social
safety net; troubling transitions through systems; underpaid employment and
challenges with system navigation.
These conversations stressed the need for affordable and accessible child care,
housing and food; secure work, a living wage, adequate benefits, and access to
mental health services.
We talked about structural challenges, including deep discrimination within
systems and beneath broader society, structural violence, gender discrimination
and health inequity."
Via
Future Crunch issue 193:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
