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  • How to reduce the depth of single adult poverty in Canada – understanding the challenges and proposing a viable solution

How to reduce the depth of single adult poverty in Canada – understanding the challenges and proposing a viable solution

  • 16 Sep 2022
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Webinar

Join Maytree and Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) for the introduction of a new proposal to address single adult poverty
Friday, September 16, 12:00PM to 1:00PM EST
Canada’s social safety net is failing working-age single adults without children. Unattached single adults represent 50 per cent of the over 1.8 million people living in deep poverty in Canada. Yet, they continue to receive the lowest income support benefits across the country, perpetuating their depth of poverty, and preventing working-age single adults from having an adequate standard of living.  

How can Canada do better?   

Maytree and Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) are proposing the creation of the Canada Working-Age Supplement (CWAS). If implemented, the CWAS would build on the current Canada Workers Benefit, reduce the depth of poverty working-age single adults experience by up to 40 percent, and could be implemented without delay.

Join us for a presentation on the proposed Canada Working-Age Supplement, followed by a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities available to address the depth of poverty working-age single adults experience.



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