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Our goal is to get municipalities, organizations and everyone to join the call to Make Ending Poverty in Alberta a Priority.
 

Poverty Costs: An Economic Case for a Poverty Reduction Strategy

Alberta is one of three provinces without a poverty reduction strategy.

This report explains why we need a strategy and analyzes how effective government has been so far.

 

 


Poverty in Numbers
82k
Number of children under the age of 18 living in low-income households in Alberta (2008)
82k
Number of Albertans who received emergency food assistance from a Food Bank in Alberta (2010)
43%
Percentage of children of the 60K who received emergency food assistance from a Food Bank (2010)
$12 or less
Hourly earnings for 234,200 Albertans (2011).