

No matter where you live in Canada, the minimum wage does not bring a full-time, year-round minimum wage worker up to the poverty line.
In 2006, 2.1 million workers across Canada - full and part-time - were low wage workers earning less than $10/hour.
Working poor parents are stuck behind a "low wage wall" in poorly paid jobs with few, if any, benefits or opportunities for education, training and advancement.
Almost 2 out of every 5 jobs - 37% - are considered "precarious", that is part-time, temporary, contract or self-employed. These jobs are unlikely to provide families with health and dental benefits or pensions.
2007 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada
Laurel Rothman is the Director of Social Reform at the Family Service Toronto. Laurel also serves as the National Coordinator of Campaign 2000, a non-partisan national coalition of more than 120 organizations committed to securing the implementation of the 1989 federal all-party resolution "to seek to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000".
Laurel is a frequent media spokesperson on issues of children's well-being. She also has published articles in professional journals and magazines including Child Welfare, Women and Environments, the Canadian Review of Social Policy and Paediatrics and Child Health, just to mention a few.
Contact details: Tel: (416) 595-9230 Ext. 228
Jacquie Maund works at Family Service Toronto where she is the Coordinator of Ontario Campaign 2000. A national non-partisan coalition of over 120 partners, Campaign 2000 works to end child and family poverty in Canada.
Jacquie is the co-author of numerous Campaign 2000 reports, including Ontario Report Card on Child Poverty, National Report Card on Child Poverty, and “A Poverty Reduction Strategy for Ontario”. As a public advocate on anti poverty issues she frequently meets with politicians from all parties, and is a media spokesperson for Campaign 2000.
Contact details: Tel: (416) 595-9230 Ext. 241
For a list of spokespeople in other provinces please contact:
Liyu Guo
Tel: 416 595 9230 Ext. 244
Email: liyugu@familyservicetoronto.org
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