Families on Ontario Works live far below the poverty line. A single mother with an eight year old child living in a large city like Toronto and receiving Ontario Works benefits still lives more than $5,000 below the poverty line.
Source: 2008 Ontario Report Card on Child & Family Poverty
The Ending Poverty Project was initiated by ISAC and Ontario Campaign 2000 to work with low-income people in 10 communities to share ideas for what's needed to end poverty in Ontario and to build broad public support for tackling poverty both locally and across the province. The project is funded by the Metcalf Foundation.
The two-year project, which began in January 2008, involves community partners in Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Ottawa, Owen Sound and Windsor. In Toronto, the project involves youth, people with disabilities, single moms, and racialized communities.
Read about low-income people's ideas for ending poverty in ISAC and Campaign 2000's report on the first year of the project, entitled Solutions Start with Us: Voices of Low-Income People in Ontario (English and French)
For more detail on this project please visit: www.incomesecurity.org/campaigns/EndingPovertyProject.htm
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