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Canada needs to do more to fix the child poverty rate because it has remained virtually unchanged in two decades, says an annual quality of life report card released Tuesday by the Community Foundations of Canada.
The non-governmental organization said the Vital Signs 2008 report shows more than one in five children (1.6 million or 23 per cent) lived in poverty in 2006.
That's the same level as 1989, the report suggests, when Ottawa pledged to eliminate child poverty by the year 2000.
The report card is an initiative by 15 Canadian community foundations to measure the quality of life and make recommendations to improve it. Each of the communities released a separate report card as part of the initiative.
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- reprinted from Canwest News Service