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Work Is not Working for Families

In today’s labour market, a full-time job at minimum wage does not provide a family with enough resources to escape poverty.

In 2006, 40.2% of low income children lived in families where at least one income earner worked full-year, full-time.

Almost two out of three (63.5%) low income children live in families in which parents are forced to piece together various work arrangements including part-time and/or seasonal work in order to get full-time hours.

2008 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada

Calendar of Events on/around November 24th, 2009

Marking 20 years of the all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty by the year 2000 in Canada

Campaign 2000 and its partners will be releasing our annual Report Card on Child and Family Poverty on Nov. 24th, 2009 in cities across Canada, including the annual national Report Card in Ottawa, and 7 provincial Report Cards in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax and Saint John. You can download a copy of all our report cards as of Nov. 24th this year, so stay tuned.

To mark this special shameful day, there will be a series of community events being planned from coast to coast to draw attention to the situation and to call on our elected politicians and the public to take action.

Here’s a list of what’s happening across the country:

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Apart from the release of provincial Report Cards, there are other events being planned and organized by our partners in Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. Contact Liyu Guo at liyugu@familyservicetoronto.org for further info and updates.

As well, in commemorating the 20th year of the all-party resolution to end child poverty, the National Film Board is working with a number of organizations and agencies, including Campaign 2000, in a series of film screenings and community forums of Four Feet Up (http://films.nfb.ca/four-feet-up/?mid=9601) in the evening of Nov. 24, 2009 in up to 12 cities, including Vancouver, Regina (??), Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Wolfville (N.S.) and Fredericton. Please contact Amy Stewart Gallant at: a.stewart@nfb.ca for more info on this event.