Fast FACTS - Community looking for action plan from province on poverty

Fast FACTS CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES - MANITOBA November 16, 2016 Community looking for action plan from province on poverty When Lieutenant Governor Janice Community organizations have Filmon delivers the throne speech developed a blueprint for such a November 21, a plan for poverty plan with 50 recommendations reduction should top the government’s in targeted areas including: food. [...] The View From Here was Poverty comes in many forms, most of them endorsed last year by over 100 hidden from public view: an empty fridge groups and should form the basis of at the end of the month; a coolness in the a provincial plan. [...] A single parent with two Josh Brandon is chair of Make Poverty children on EIA is at 92 percent of the History Manitoba, a community animator poverty line, while a two parent, two child with the Social Planning Council of family is at 87 per cent – still well below Winnipeg, and CCPA-Manitoba Research what is needed for raising a family. [...] In the short term, we must do more to get those in the deepest poverty closer to that level. [...] Make Poverty History Manitoba launched a campaign this week calling on the Province of Manitoba to increase the basic needs budget to bring the total incomes of all Manitobans up to at least 75 percent of the MBM in 2017, as part of a comprehensive plan.