Defining poverty critical first step

From EndCanadianPoverty.ca

• Date: January 6, 2007
• Source: Toronto Star
• Link to article: Defining poverty critical first step

"How many Canadians are really living in poverty today? How much money would it take to lift them over the poverty line? Regrettably, no one can say for certain because Canada lacks an official measure of poverty. And without such a measure, governments and advocates for the poor can only guess at how widespread poverty is, whether it is getting better or worse, and what must be done to eliminate it or even cut it in half."