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Indigenous children
face
deplorable
poverty A new study, released today by the CCPA and Save the Children
Canada, finds that 40% of Indigenous children in Canada are living in poverty.
The report, authored by CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald and Indigenous
rights advocate Daniel Wilson, finds that Indigenous children in Canada are
over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous
children—and that they trail the rest of Canada’s children on practically every
measure of well-being, including: family income, educational attainment, water
quality, infant mortality, health, suicide, crowding and homelessness.
Regionally, the situation is even worse in Manitoba and
Saskatchewan, where two out of three status First Nations children live in
poverty. Take a look at our infographic for child poverty rates across
Canada.
Read more in the full
report, Poverty or
Prosperity: Indigenous children in Canada
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