The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty 2000

(by David P. Ross, Katherine J. Scott and Peter J. Smith, 2000, 175 pp., #557, out of print)

An essential component of the CCSD's work on poverty in Canada for over 25 years, this latest edition of The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty provides researchers, social policy analysts and decision-makers with the most comprehensive statistics available on Canada's poor.

"This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the issue of poverty in Canada. Up-to-date, accurate information is available on all aspects of poverty including its epidemiology, causes and consequences. Clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and the public at large will find this book to be a unique Canadian treasure."
Dan Offord, M.D., Director, Canadian Centre for Studies of Children at Risk

"The Fact Book on Poverty is a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in keeping up-to-date with what is happening to poverty in Canada. It is a treasure chest of information which I use frequently both for research and teaching."
Shelley Phipps, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University

This is the sixth in a series of poverty fact books published by the CCSD.

Portions of this book are available online.

• More Information and selected chapters
• Out of print
• Publications Catalogue