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Vibrant organizes community clean-up.
When things are tight, food purchase club provides helathy alternative (Telegraph-Journal, June 21st, 2010)
Grits Target Homelessness (Telegraph-Journal, June 21st, 2010)
Lack of Social Solidarity in N.B. (Times& Transcript, June 21st, 2010)
More about Drug Plan if Grits win Election (Daily Gleaner, June 18th, 2010)
Lamrock would rather spend money on crime Prevention (Telegraph - Journal, June 17th, 2010)
Universal Prescription Drug Plan (Daily Gleaner, May 4th, 2010)
Rooming House Legislations (Times & Transcript, May 4th, 2010)
Emphasis on poverty reduction rather than more punitive justice system (Times & Transcript, May 4th, 2010)
Tory Leader welcomes Poverty Appointments (Telegraph -Journal, May 4th,2010)
Graham names Anti-Poverty Leaders (Times & Transcript, May 4th, 2010)
Canada at 150: The Social Agenda (Sherri Torjman, March 2010)
Breaking down the welfare wall in New Brunswick ?Briser le mur de l'aide sociale au Nouveau-Brunswick (Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and Michael Mendelson, March 2010)
Regressing Towards Proportionality: Personal Income Tax Reform in New Brunswick
(Joe Ruggeri and Jean-Philippe Bourgeois, March 2010)
Hamilton’s Hostels to Homes Project (Anne Makhoul, Betty Lou Purdon and Paul Johnson, March 2010)
City's strength is people power (Telegraph-Journal , March 17th, 2010)
Economic opportunities are rooted in the community (Telegraph-Journal, March 15th, 2010)
Heating rebate a success: Lamrock (Times &Transcript, March 19th, 2010)
Liberals boost low-income property tax allowance (The Daily Gleaner, March 13th, 2010)
N.B. leading the nation in tackling poverty (Times & Transcript, March 13th, 2010)
Women struggle to break yoke of poverty (Telegraph-Journal, March 8th, 2010)
These are the faces of poverty and social injustice in New Brunswick (The Daily Gleaner, March 3rd, 2010)
Lack of social spending panned (Telegraph-Journal, March 5th, 2010)
First Reading of New Brunswick's Economic and Social Inclusion Act (Government of New Brunswick)
UCSN Program gets boost of 200,000 (Telegraph-Journal, February 18th, 2010)
Funding provided to upgrade 450 low-income housing units (Telegraph-Journal, February 17th, 2010)
Rewritten Policy will help people escape poverty (Telegraph-Journal, February 18, 2010)
Push for renewal in Housing (Telegraph-Journal February 17th, 2010)
Affordable Housing projects in city get Boost (Daily Gleaner, February 16th, 2010)
Food banks struggle to keep up with demand (Telegraph-Journal, February 18th, 2010)
Help for Romero House ((Telegraph-Journal, February 18th, 2010)
Closing the Gap(Telegraph-Journal, December 31st, 2009)
Reduce Poverty by Helping Single Moms (Telegraph-Journal, December 30th, 2009)
Being poor is bad for you (Daily Gleaner, December 29th, 2009)
Resolve to help N.B.’s most vulnerable (Telegraph-Journal, December 26th, 2009)
Reducing Poverty requires a group effort (Telegraph-Journal, November 24th, 2009)
Poverty plan earns praise (Telegraph-Journal, November 23rd, 2009)
Harmony in the house (Daily Gleaner, November 23rd, 2009)
Poverty Covenant (Telegraph-Journal, November 17th, 2009)
N.B’s new approach to poverty (Telegraph-Journal, December 21st, 2009)
Cut the roots of poverty with a living wage (Telegraph-Journal, October 21st, 2009)
Local social groups to lobby government
for improvements in fight against poverty
As published in The Northern Light, Page I6, October
24, 2009. By James Mallory - The New Brunswick Common
Front for Social Justice and the Community Homeless Network
Inc. in Bathurst is calling for the provincial government
to alleviate poverty in this province. Continue
reading . . .
Official says solution to poverty is education
As published in The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal,
Page B4, October 24, 2009. By April Robinson - Saint
John is one of 11 Canadian communities chosen to tackle
barriers to post-secondary education at a national conference
this weekend. Continue
reading . . .
Poverty solutions must be non-partisan
As published in The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal,
Letters to the Editor, Page A8, October 23, 2009.
- It is with great interest that we read recent comments
by Opposition Leader David Alward on poverty. However, there
are some matters we feel should be addressed. Continue
reading . . .
Get strategic about poverty
As published in The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal,
Page A8, October 17, 2009. - The Roman poet Juvenal
observed, "It is not easy for men to rise, when poverty
thwarts their best qualities." Tens of thousands of
New Brunswickers can attest to the truth of this. Poverty
constrains lives and limits personal horizons. In this province,
a generational cycle of poverty has been created by well-intentioned
policies that backfired. Continue
reading . . .
Anti-poverty group reaches out to
local governments
As published in The New Brunswick Telegraph Journal,
Page A3, October 17, 2009. By Adam Huras - An anti-poverty
group is calling on every New Brunswick jurisdiction to
create its own street-level poverty plan, fearing the provincial
government will not implement its own before the next election.
Continue
reading . . .
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