[news] Welfare Worsens in Canada; Recipients Get Less Than 20 Years Ago

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

Here in Canada, in one of the richest countries of the world, the very poorest are getting poorer. This is not the result of some external or unforeseen crisis. It is happening in the midst of a long-running economic boom and reflects the deliberate decisions of elected governments — presumably supported by the Canadian public at large — to purge the roughly 1.7 million people consigned to welfare from our collective consciousness.

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