| Description |
1 online resource (152 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: The Work of Hundreds of People; 1. "As Sharp As You Could Cut Them"; 2. Back to the Future? The Choice Is Ours; 3. Working Harder Is Hardly Working; 4. Precarious Work: How Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty; 5. Ontario Works: How Did This Happen to Me?; 6. The Disorienting Disability Support Maze; 7. The Affordable Housing Deficit: Out of the Cold; 8. Housing Strategy on the Brink: The Time Has Come; 9. The Cost of Hunger: Food Security and Health Issues; 10. Food Insecurity: A Source of Suffering and Ill Health |
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11. Poverty and Health: "I'm One Stumble from the Street"12. Poverty Makes Us Sick; 13. Families Matter: The Catch-22 of Poverty; 14. Ontario's Push to Early Childhood Education and Care for All; 15. "It's Not My Country Yet . . ."; 16. Rural Poverty: Hidden in the Country?; 17. Theological Reflections on Poverty; 18. A Pebble in the Shoe; Acknowledgements; Notes; Contributors |
| Summary |
Gives voice to our most vulnerable neighbors#x97;-people marginalized by joblessness, disability, poverty level wages, and mental illness |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poor -- Ontario -- Social conditions
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Poverty -- Government policy -- Ontario
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Public welfare -- Ontario
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Poor -- Social conditions
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Poverty -- Government policy
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Public welfare
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Ontario
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dineen, Mira
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Swift, Jamie
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| ISBN |
9781926662275 |
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192666227X |
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