New report finds $61 million in provincial funding for low-income Toronto students being diverted.
New report finds $61 million in provincial funding for low-income Toronto students being diverted.
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Missing Opportunities: How budget policies continue to leave behind low-income students
Family income is one of the most powerful factors affecting student success. Students from economically and socially marginalized conditions face greater external challenges and consequently...
Make Your Voice Heard On The 2017 Budget
2017 Budget has been launched, and its impacts on community services, transit and housing is stark. This is your chance to let your Councillor know...
Divided City: Life in Canada’s Child Poverty Capital
Purpose of Report: This report draws from new data to update the 2014 report, The Hidden Epidemic: A Report on Child and Family Poverty in...
Budget proposes deep, built-in cuts to housing and transit and services for vulnerable residents.
Speaking from Toronto City Hall, Sean Meagher, Executive Director of Social Planning Toronto said: “This budget presents a stark choice for the Mayor and Council: choose...
Poverty costs Toronto up to $5.5 billion each year
A new report estimates poverty is costing Toronto between $4.5-$5.5 billion each year due to increases in cost to the health and justice system as...
The Cost Of Poverty In Toronto
This report estimates the price of inaction. Regardless of the strategy used to address poverty, it asks, “What does it cost us to allow poverty...
Five key Council Advisory Committees raise doubts about Mayor’s proposed Budget Cuts
Today, five advisory committees to Toronto City Council issued letters to Mayor John Tory asking him to reconsider the proposed across-the-board 2.6% budget cuts, citing...
Social Planning Toronto and the SPACE Coalition host policy breakfast on community hubs.
On Monday, November 14, Special Advisor Karen Pitre joined Social Planning Toronto, the SPACE Coalition and more than 60 community members, service providers, and elected officials to...
Cuts to low-income services proposed as new report says Toronto is Child Poverty Capital of Canada.
On the eve of potential cuts to city programs and services, a new report has found that Toronto has the highest percentage of children living...