Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not

The plans involve a lot of policy changes on the town and provincial levels — improved day care, redesigned transit systems, better work-force development systems. The two biggest changes were efforts in city after city to raise the minimum wage and the expansion of a national child benefit, which can net a family up to nearly $6,500 a year per child. Paul Born, the head of the institute, emphasizes that the crucial thing these communitywide collective impact structures do is change attitudes.

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