Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State (Paperback)

Paperback. In 2005, 1.2 million children in Canada were living below the poverty level. This represents a 20 percent increase since 1989, the year that the federal government unanimously passed a resolution to eliminate child poverty by 2000. To understand the state of children's welfare, Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State reviews Canadian social policy reform, and discovers that the welfare of poor children is a casualty of the war on the welfare state launched by opposing political ideologies. This study surveys the shift from entitlement to charity from the perspective of social policy reform. The increasing scope of child poverty in Canada has been high on the national agenda since at least 1989. This book represents an effort to understand the changes in social policy that normalise the existence of child poverty in a rich society like Canada. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.