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Title:Child Poverty & the Canadian Welfare State : From Entitlement to Charity
Author:Shereen Ismael
ISBN:0888644612 : 9780888644619
Illustrations:figures, tables, bibliography, index
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:128
Weight: .199 Kg.
Published:University of Alberta Press - July 2006
List Price: 20.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Poverty: Social welfare & social services: Canada: Children


Child hunger and homelessness -- once considered either sorrowful reflections of an economically impoverished society or shameful reflections of a morally impoverished state -- have become commonplace. The increasing scope of child poverty in Canada has been high on the national agenda since at least 1989 when Ed Broadbent, leader of the New Democratic Party, proposed a resolution in the House of Commons to eliminate child poverty by 2000. The resolution passed unanimously and sparked the formation of Campaign 2000, a broad national co-alition of non-governmental agencies committed to monitoring the government’s progress toward that goal. More than a decade later, the September 2001 issue of Maclean’s remarked: "Here we are in 2001... and child poverty in Canada is worse, not better." This book represents an effort to understand the changes in social policy that normalise the existence of child poverty in a rich society like Canada.

The Problem of Child Poverty in Canada; The Canadian Welfare State and the Growth of Entitlement; The Residual State and the Mobilisation of Charity; Child Poverty and Changing Federal Policy; Social Policy Reform and the Normalisation of Child Poverty; Notes; Bibliography.