We Can Do Better

In the report, We Can Do Better, Toward an Alberta Child Poverty Reduction Strategy for Children and Families (November 2008) principal author John Kolkman, Research and Policy Analyst Coordinator for the Edmonton Social Planning Council, states that 77,595 children now live in poverty in this province. Further, Mr Kolkman found that 24,695 children living in poverty have one or both parents working full-time, full year and that low income children in Alberta live in deeper poverty than children in other provinces. Mr. Kolkman notes, “Albertans strongly favour reducing poverty.”

This report is now available for download at: www.edmontonsocialplanning.ca