N.S. child poverty rate sees largest increase in more than 30 years: ‘Very disheartening’
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A new report indicates the child poverty rate in Nova Scotia rose to 20.5 per cent in 2021, representing more than one in five children.
The child poverty rate in Nova Scotia rose to 20.5 per cent in 2021, representing more than one in five children, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The centre’s annual report card on child poverty said the new rate is an 11.4-per cent increase from the previous year, making it the largest single-year rise in child poverty rates since 1989.
“It’s very disheartening,” said Christine Saulnier, Nova Scotia director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and one of the report’s authors.
“It is thousands more children that have fallen into poverty since we last reported.”
According to the 2021 data, the most recent data available, Nova Scotia had the fourth-highest child poverty rate in Canada and the highest rate in Atlantic Canada.
The 20.5-per cent poverty rate means there are 35,330 children living in poverty in the province.
“We present numbers, we look at the numbers, we manipulate them in Excel spreadsheets, but behind them are real people,” Saulnier said.
The highest rate of child poverty is among babies under the age of two – one in four of whom are living in poverty.
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