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By Brendyn Creamer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Coast One-in-five children in Nova Scotia are living in poverty. That\u2019s the biggest takeaway from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) 2025 report card \u00a0on child and family poverty in the province, which analyzes the most \u00a0recently available tax-filer data to identify gaps within our system. \u00a0The report was released on Wednesday, Feb. 18, alongside partners \u00a0Campaign 2000 and Fed Family Lab. This report is dropped days after Brendan Maguire, the minister of education, \u00a0announced that the province will not meet it\u2019s $10-a-day childcare deadline on March 31. According to the report, 22.7 percent of children within the province \u00a0(40,210) lived in poverty in 2023\u2014a 4.6 percent decrease from 2022, but \u00a0still leaving Nova Scotia with the third-highest rate of… <\/p>\n

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By Brendyn Creamer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Coast One-in-five children in Nova Scotia are living in poverty. That\u2019s the biggest takeaway from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) 2025 report card \u00a0on child and family poverty in the province, which analyzes the most \u00a0recently available tax-filer data to identify gaps within our system. \u00a0The report was released on Wednesday, Feb. 18, alongside partners \u00a0Campaign 2000 and Fed Family Lab. This report is dropped days after Brendan Maguire, the minister of education, \u00a0announced that the province will not meet it\u2019s $10-a-day childcare deadline on March 31. According to the report, 22.7 percent of children within the province \u00a0(40,210) lived in poverty in 2023\u2014a 4.6 percent decrease from 2022, but \u00a0still leaving Nova Scotia with the third-highest rate of... <\/p>\n

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