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In the most comprehensive report to date on the dynamics, depth and duration of poverty, released today by the National Council of Welfare, some findings stand out.

Poverty Profile 1999 shows that poverty rates generally continued a 3-year downward trend. But Canada was still not doing as well as it was a decade earlier, despite eight consecutive years of solid economic growth. The overall improvement of 0.7 percent in poverty rates between 1998 and 1999 came nowhere close to matching the impressive economic growth rate of nearly 5 percent during that period. The Council considers this stagnation, at best, rather than progress. Our economic prosperity should have helped many more Canadians escape or avert poverty, including senior women living alone, whose already high poverty rate actually worsened in 1999.

Press Release: Youngest Canadians at highest risk of chronic poverty

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• 1999 Report; ; please contact us to ORDER a copy.
• Errata