November 2011

In This Together: Ending Poverty In Alberta 

The Edmonton Social Planning Council, the Alberta College of Social Workers, and Public Interest Alberta released a new report In This Together: Ending Poverty in Alberta revealing the latest available data that 73,000 Alberta children lived below Statistics Canada's low-income cut-off (after-tax) in 2009.  This was a 40% increase from the year before.  The document also offers solutions to alleviating poverty in Alberta.