UNICEF's Report Card 10: Measuring Child Poverty reveals that Canada ranks 24th of 35 industrialized countries for child poverty.
"The face of poverty in Canada is a child’s face,” says UNICEF Canada’s Executive Director David Morley. “This is unacceptable. It is clearly time for Canada to make children a priority when planning budgets and spending our nation’s resources, even in tough economic times.”
Learn more about Report Card 10: Measuring Child Poverty and take action by writing to your MP at unicef.ca/childpoverty. You can also spread the word.