Persistent Poverty
eBook - ePub

Persistent Poverty

Voices From the Margins

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Persistent Poverty

Voices From the Margins

About this book

It's a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up. Now he lives hand-to-mouth. His pockets are empty long before his next social assistance cheque arrives.

In early 2010 over two hundred civic and faith leaders fanned out into thirty Ontario communities. Their goal? To explore how the least fortunate people in one of the world's richest places are faring.

The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition's latest social audit exposed a tattered social assistance system run by volunteers desperately struggling to fill the gaps. There can be no papering over the savage inequalities and suffering exposed in this compelling look at life from the margins.

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Yes, you can access Persistent Poverty by Brice Balmer,Mira Dineen,Jamie Swift in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Poverty in Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: The Work of Hundreds of People
  6. 1. “As Sharp As You Could Cut Them”
  7. 2. Back to the Future? The Choice Is Ours
  8. 3. Working Harder Is Hardly Working
  9. 4. Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty
  10. 5. Ontario Works: How Did This Happen to Me?
  11. 6. The Disorienting Disability Support Maze
  12. 7. The Affordable Housing Deficit: Out of the Cold
  13. 8. Housing Strategy on the Brink: The Time Has Come
  14. 9. The Cost of Hunger: Food Security and Health Issues
  15. 10. Food Insecurity: A Source of Suffering and Ill Health
  16. 11. Poverty and Health: “I’m One Stumble from the Street”
  17. 12. Poverty Makes Us Sick
  18. 13. Families Matter: The Catch-22 of Poverty
  19. 14. Ontario’s Push to Early Childhood Education and Care for All
  20. 15. “It’s Not My Country Yet . . .”
  21. 16. Rural Poverty: Hidden in the Country?
  22. 17. Theological Reflections on Poverty
  23. 18. A Pebble in the Shoe
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. Notes
  26. Contributors