Child Poverty Rose for Third Consecutive Year: Campaign 2000 Report

Child poverty rose for third consecutive year: Campaign 2000 report

TORONTO - An organization that campaigns to end child poverty says a growing number of children are living in households that struggle to pay bills and buy food.

Child poverty proves stubbornly persistent, despite big promises

A new report upbraids Canadian government officials for failing to end child poverty nearly four decades after promising to do so, pointing to New Brunswick’s own sad case.

Child poverty rising for third straight year in Canada, report says - National

More than 1.2 million adults were living in working poverty in 2025, meaning employment income alone was not enough to lift them above the poverty line.

New Release: 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada

Investing in Tomorrow: A Future Without Poverty Campaign 2000 has released the 2025 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, drawing on the latest national data to examine the state of child and family poverty across the country. More than two decades after Canada pledged to eliminate child poverty, progress is moving in the wrong direction.  Child poverty rose for the third consecutive year, with nearly 30,000 additional children fall…

Child poverty rising for third straight year in Canada, report says

Child poverty in Canada rose for a third consecutive year in 2025, with nearly 30,000 more children falling below the poverty line, according to the latest Child and Family Poverty Report Card. The report says progress toward eliminating child poverty is not only stalling but reversing, with rates now approaching levels last seen in 2017, signalling an erosion of gains made after the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit in 2016. The report s…