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Healthcare workers wearing Ebola protective suits hold two young children at a treatment center in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo.

When aid retreats, Ebola advances

A tent, trash, and personal belongings at a homeless encampment on Notre-Dame Street in East Montreal.

Cities are managing the visible signs of social failure with homelessness

The skyline is filled with glass towers and a couple of cranes.

Condos to co-ops: It makes sense to turn unsold units into social housing

Three children and an adult play a game on a carpet in a child-care centre while another adult looks on.

Child benefits work when they are generous and universal

Six pots of coffee beans.

Canadians aren’t imagining the cost-of-living crisis

Corn on the cob in closeup, with other produce and a store worker in the blurry background.

Slaying myths about income support

A worker in a yellow safety vest wrangles three shopping carts in a driving snowstorm.

A youth employment supplement could rebalance Canada’s generational divide

A shiny new foodbank with food organized on shelves with aisles like a supermarket.

Ten million Canadians live in food-insecure households. The federal budget doesn’t help them

Canada’s local news “poverty”

Seasonal hunger, deprivation are under the radar

Pauvreté et redistribution : repenser la Sécurité de la vieillesse

En finir avec les discours creux sur la pauvreté

Using the power of science to beat poverty

Growth is essential to reducing poverty in developing countries

“The wealth of Western economies is no more inevitable than the poverty of emerging ones”

From political debate to public action: Overcoming poverty in New Brunswick

A series of animated vignettes of everyday life.

Politics, political platforms and child poverty in Canada

  • by IRPP Admin 
A series of animated vignettes of everyday life.

Relative poverty – it can’t be erased, but it must be addressed, at home and abroad

  • by IRPP Admin 
A grill is open and is standing in a garage alley.

Has rising inequality hurt the middle class?

Figurines are standing on coin piles. Some are higher, some are lower.

A guaranteed annual income: From Mincome to the millennium

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