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From data to action: Policy implications of Welfare in Canada, 2024

September 9, 2025

This policy brief shows how social assistance and associated benefits keep people in deep poverty, and offers recommendations to raise incomes, fix shelter benefits, and redesign the Canada Disability Benefit.

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Seniors’ poverty in Canada: Why it exists and why it doesn’t have to
April 16, 2025
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Canada does not know how many seniors live in poverty
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A fine line: Finding the right seniors’ poverty measure in Canada
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Reconstructing care for seniors
April 16, 2020
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Policy innovations for an aging society
May 29, 2018