Poverty And Policy In Canada
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About Canada
Author | : Jim Silver |
Publsiher | : About Canada |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1552666816 |
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For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada's neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions that make a growing number of people vulnerable to low income, vanishing public services and poor physical health. Silver also highlights the ways in which poverty is intimately connected to colonialism and racial and gender discrimination, and finds that the political and economic policies enacted by the Canadian government serve only a powerful minority, while producing a range of negative outcomes for the rest of us, especially the poor. Silver points out that the costs of poverty -- relating to health care, crime, education and unemployment -- are higher than the costs of solving poverty, and he lays out an achievable strategy for its dramatic reduction in Canada. When poverty is understood as resulting from political choices, its elimination requires putting pressure on governments to ensure that different choices are made.
Poverty in Canada
Author | : Dennis Raphael |
Publsiher | : Canadian Scholars |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2020-08-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781773381923 |
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Now in its third edition, this comprehensive text provides an in-depth examination of poverty and its impact on the health and quality of life of Canadians. Considering a broad range of topics, Dennis Raphael covers the central issues of defining and measuring poverty; situational and societal causes of poverty; health and social implications for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing poverty’s incidence through public policy action. Poverty in Canada will foster greater insight into the repercussions of poverty throughout society, encouraging readers to reflect on provocative questions at the end of each chapter. Well updated to reflect current statistics and recent public policy changes, this new edition explores why specific groups of Canadians are over-represented amongst those living in poverty and provides a more developed analysis of the barriers to reducing poverty, including economic globalization and the increased power and influence of the corporate sector under neo liberalism. Emphasizing the lived experiences of poverty, this interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource to those studying or working in health studies, social work, sociology, and equity studies.
Poverty and Policy in Canada
Author | : Dennis Raphael |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : OCLC:1011713653 |
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Not Enough
Author | : Canadian Council for Social Development |
Publsiher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0888103468 |
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At the time of this study's publication in 1984, 26 per cent--2.3 million--Canadian households lived below the poverty line; over 100,000 families subsisted on less than $5000 a year; social assistance rates provided about half of what a family required to survive. Not Enough: The Meaning and Measurement of Poverty in Canada, the report of a national task force on poverty, asserts that "serious deprivation does exist in Canada." Not Enough provides a range of detailed information, charts and graphs dealing with the extent, depth and length of poverty in Canada in the 1980s. The report is especially attentive to the regional distribution of poverty, to its increasing "feminization", and to the difficulties disabled people face maintaining their dignity in the face of chronically restricted budgets. Not Enough is a detailed snapshot of the recent past of a crippling social problem that remains with us today.
Poverty and Policy in Canada
Author | : Dennis Raphael |
Publsiher | : Canadian Scholars Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 155130323X |
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Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences - Social Work, Health Sciences, Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Nursing, Education, Psychology, and the general public. Central issues include the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty - both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and means of addressing the incidence of poverty and improving its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty throughout the book. This new book has three, straightforward goals: to provide a range of approaches for understanding poverty and its effects to help readers understand the structural antecedents of poverty - that is, how society and its distribution of resources are the primary determinants of poverty to provide realistic solutions to poverty
Canadian Social Policy
Author | : Anne Westhues |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780889205604 |
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What are the major issues confronting social policy-makers today? What theoretical perspectives shape our thinking about the causes of social problems and how we should respond? What can we do to influence decision makers about which policy choice to make? In this completely revised and updated edition of "Canadian Social Policy," a new generation of social policy analysts discusses these important questions. Readers who are interested in discovering the current policy debates, and who want to understand the policy-making process at various levels of government as well as how they can influence the process and assess whether policies are working, will find this book invaluable.
Poverty in Canada
Author | : John Harp,John R. Hofley |
Publsiher | : Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall of Canada |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015009192215 |
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An Overview of Canadian Social Policy
Author | : Melanie Hess,Canadian Council on Social Development |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Canada |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050048803 |
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