The history of capitalism, as portrayed in academia and among much of the media, is a sad story. It’s one of smokestacks, sweatshops, child labor, robber barons, social stratification and general ...

National report spotlights the devastating impact of deepening poverty, rising youth unemployment, and recommends three poverty reduction policies to build a stronger Canada TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2025 ...

Here's the good news from the Brookings Institute: global poverty of the $1.25 a day or less variety has been on retreat--over half a billion people have made it out of such poverty in the developing ...

The official poverty measure has a lot of problems, and we'll have to wait until November for the better alternative measure from the census. For one thing, the official measure totally ignores the ...

At the entrance to the Welcome Hall Mission food bank in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 1, 2023. GRAHAM HUGHES / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES The weather was muggy with intermittent warm summer rain ...

Rates of child and family poverty in Canada are on the rise, according to a new report. From 2021 to 2022, the child poverty rate in Canada rose by 2.5 percentage points, or a total of 195,170 ...

Disability Without Poverty and Campaign 2000 issue joint Disability Poverty Card highlighting failures of the federal government to end disability poverty and call for a strengthened Canada Disability ...

University of Ottawa provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA-FR. University of Ottawa provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Canada’s inflation rate has started to ...

Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Nicole Racine receives funding from the ...