About Canada: Poverty

by Jim Silver

For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada's neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions that make a growing number of people vulnerable to low income, vanishing public services and poor physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552666816
• ISBN13: 9781552666814
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.0"