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About Canada. Poverty / Jim Silver.

by Silver, James, 1946-

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Fernwood Publishing, [2014]

362.50971 S587a

Poverty -- Canada.

Poor -- Canada.

Neoliberalism -- Canada.

Canada -- Economic policy.

Canada -- Social policy.

About Canada series 10.

9781552666814 (pbk.)

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viii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-178) and index.

"For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada's neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions that make a growing number of people vulnerable to low income, vanishing public services and poor physical health. Silver also highlights the ways in which poverty is intimately connected to colonialism and racial and gender discrimination, and finds that the political and economic policies enacted by the Canadian government serve only a powerful minority, while producing a range of negative outcomes for the rest of us, especially the poor. Silver points out that the costs of poverty relating to health care, crime, education and unemployment are higher than the costs of solving poverty, and he lays out an achievable strategy for its dramatic reduction in Canada."--Provided by publisher.

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