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Women's Poverty and Exclusion

The poverty experienced by so many women in Canada is simply not acceptable in a country that has boasted eight consecutive years of budget surpluses. CRIAW's broad-based consultations on women's poverty and exclusion1 clearly showed that the depth of this poverty has increased over the last 10 years, a period that parallels the erosion of the country's social programs.2 The consultations confirmed that subsuming discussions of poverty within economic policies alone allows issues of social justice, rights, and accountability to be overlooked. [...]