A couple of stories from Ontario
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... makes it more difficult for the poor to escape their condition. From The Toronto Star, writer Laurie Monsebraaten gives us some statistics on Canadian welfare. Almost 800,000 Ontarians – including about 236,000 children and about 260,000 disabled people – live on provincial welfare and disability supports that leave most of them trapped in grinding poverty and despair....