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Poverty
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Poverty and Policy in Canada : implications for health and quality of life by Dennis RaphaelPublication Date: 2007
Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. Central issues include the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty - both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and means of addressing the incidence of poverty and improving its effects.
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Poverty in Canada by Raghubar D. SharmaPublication Date: 2012
Poverty in Canada is on the rise, particularly among certain groups. While in developing countries poverty may affect much of the population, in a more developed country such as Canada it is largely restricted to specific groups. Such groups are often excluded from full participation in our social and economic institutions. There are many factors behind this lack of wealth and opportunity; addressing the phenomenon of poverty can be a complicated matter.
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Hard Choices : financial exclusion, fringe banks, and poverty in urban Canada by Jerry BucklandPublication Date: 2012
When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to 'fringe banks,' such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of 'financial exclusion' - faced by those underserved by conventional financial institutions - is comprehensively examined in Jerry Buckland's powerful study, Hard Choices.
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Daily struggles : the deepening racialization and feminization of poverty in Canada by Siu-ming. KwokPublication Date: 2008
Unlike previously published Canadian books in this field, this book connects human rights, political economy perspectives, and citizenship issues to other areas of social exclusion." "This new book is ideally suited for a wide variety of sociology, social work, and political science courses in the areas of social inequality and stratification, poverty, social policy and welfare, gender, race and ethnicity, and anti-racism.
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About Canada : poverty by Jim SilverPublication Date: 2014
This book is about the Forms of poverty, Poverty by the numbers, Neoliberalism and its effects, Complex poverty, The costs of poverty, and Solutions that work.
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Poor Housing: A Silent Crisis by Josh BrandonPublication Date: 2015
"Poor Housing examines some of the consequences of the dogged persistence of poor housing for low-income people using Winnipeg as a case study, and it looks at some innovative community-based strategies that have been and are being tried in an attempt to solve at least some aspects of the problem."-- Provided by publisher.
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Money in Their Own Name: the feminist voice in poverty debate in Canada, 1970-1995 by Wendy McKeenPublication Date: 2004
McKeen provides a detailed historical account of the shaping of feminist politics within the field of federal child benefits programs in Canada, and explores the critical issue of why feminists' vision of the 'social individual' failed to flourish. Canadian social policy, as in most western welfare states, has established women's access to social benefits on the basis of their status as wives or mothers, not individuals in their own right.
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Social Policy and Practice in Canada by Alvin FinkelPublication Date: 2006
Traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations' control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organised themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young.
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Remnants of Nation by Roxanne RimsteadPublication Date: 2001
The Remnants of Nation is a ground breaking book that introduces a new genre called 'poverty narratives' to study literature and popular culture in the larger context of economic and literary disenfranchisement. While issues of race, gender, and sexuality are now circulating in literary studies and their 'constructedness' is being debated, the relations of class, poverty, and narrative have not been thoroughly examined until now. Here, poverty is treated not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves.
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Poverty and Policy in Canada : implications for health and quality of life by 
Poverty in Canada by 
Hard Choices : financial exclusion, fringe banks, and poverty in urban Canada by 
Daily struggles : the deepening racialization and feminization of poverty in Canada by 
About Canada : poverty by 
Poor Housing: A Silent Crisis by 
Money in Their Own Name: the feminist voice in poverty debate in Canada, 1970-1995 by 
Continuities and discontinuities : the political economy of social welfare and labour market policy in Canada by 
Remnants of Nation by