Alternatives North, a social justice group based in the NWT, outlined “the reality of poverty in the NWT” in a new 2020 Poverty Report Card released last week.
The 35 page document identifies – based on Statistics Canada and NWT Bureau of Statistics data – overcrowded housing, food insecurity and employment rates as key problematic areas in the territory. It describes the ways that poverty contributes to “inordinately high rates of crime, violence, substance abuse and poor physical and mental health,” and makes eight recommendations for improvements. Among them are increased community programming, new data collection measures and an all […]
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