Child Poverty in Canada

by Patrizia Albanese

On 24 November 1989 the Canadian House of Commons unanimously passed an all-party resolution to eliminate poverty among Canadian children by the year 2000. Yet in 2005 a report by UNICEF placed Canada nineteenth in a ranking of the relative poverty of children in 26 of the world's richest countries (Greece, Hungary, and Poland all had a significantly better record). How can this be?

This short and engaging book provides the latest research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195432053
• ISBN13: 9780195432053
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"