A report card on child and family poverty in Ontario
Ontario is a wealthy province in a wealthy country, yet child poverty remains a pressing social concern in every community.
In 2019, the most recent year for which data are available, one in six children across the province lived with the day-to-day reality of never having enough. Despite recent progress—the child poverty rate fell from 23.4% in 2013 to 17.6% in 2019—half a million children still lived in poverty in 2019.
This report calls on governments to treat poverty reduction as an urgent priority.
