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Title   Welfare Incomes 2000 and 2001
Date   Spring 2002
No.   Report No. 116

Estimates of the incomes of welfare recipients in each province and territory for four family types: a single employable person, a single person with a disability, a single parent with one child, and a two-parent family with two children. Also included are comparisons with the poverty lines and average incomes, and data on welfare incomes as far back as 1986.

Press Release: How Do Almost 2 Million Canadians Manage to Survive on Welfare Incomes Tragically Lower Than the Poverty Line?

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