“They have always talked about reducing child poverty but they have never really put action towards it,” she said. But the two measures tell vastly different stories about child poverty in Canada, activists note. “It will cut child poverty from about 11.2 per cent to 6.7 per cent . Canada’s new child benefit, which will begin arriving in mailboxes after July 1, will slash child poverty by 40 per cent, the largest single drop in the country’s history, according to the federal minister in charge of the initiative. The new program , which will cost the government an additional $22.4 billion over five years, replaces three current child benefits with a single monthly payment.

Source: thestar June 15, 2016 09:04 UTC