Tag: persistent poverty: voices from the margins
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Please Support “Let’s Vote For a Poverty Free Ontario” on September 13, 2011
Following Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s (ISARC ‘s) publication of Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins, and based on the findings of the social audits in 26 locations across Ontario, Canada, ISARC is “particularly concerned that the latest Ontario budget offered so little to those on social assistance – $5.92 per month, as Carol Goar…
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Conversation on Breaking Free from Persistent Poverty
The following message is from the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC): RELIGIOUS LEADERS FORUM Breaking Free from Persistent Poverty June 9, 2011, 9AM – 3:30PM Northrop Frye Building Victoria University 73 Queen’s Park Circle Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Please note a change from our usual venue. The new location is just a little north from…
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York Region ISARC Social Audit Presentation at the Community And Health Services Committee Meeting
The 2010 Social Audit was a faith community assessment of the status of poverty in Ontario, Canada. ISARC (Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition) provided community hearings for the most vulnerable across Ontario to tell their stories of living in poverty and give us their ideas for change at the political level. The 2010 “Social Audit…
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Come Celebrate the Publication of ISARC’s 2010 Social Audit
From ISARC (Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), a special invitation to you… Please join us to celebrate the publication and book launch of ISARC’s 2010 social audit: Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins Jamie Swift, Brice Balmer & Mira Dineen In 2010 hundreds of volunteers fanned out across Ontario to hear from…
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‘Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins’ Compels Us to Recognize the Proliferating Plight of Low-Income Canadians in Rich Ontario
Pre-order now available… Books produced by ISARC; the findings from ISARC social audits in Ontario, Canada: Launching December 1, 2010… Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins Authors: Jamie Swift, Brice Balmer and Mira Dineen “In 2010 hundreds of volunteers fanned out across Ontario to hear from poor people in a rich province reeling from global…