Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (March 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A call to action.			520
A rigged game.			2186
Assessing global threats.			850
Cutting services not poverty.			2452
Deciding where poverty starts: as with many countries, there is no official measure of poverty in Canada, but there are several different ways of measuring low income.			1760
Looking after everyone: social policy in Scandinavian countries, in particular, is far more progressive than North American models. The system is universal (dependent not on contribution but on need), and has earned a reputation for providing superior public services that reduce class and income differences.			1812
Poor families equal poor children: given the extent of poverty in Canada, particularly among single-parent families, it follows that many of the victims are children.			2449
Promises, promises.			2123
Putting a face on poverty: many think it's a disgrace that there should be homeless and poverty-stricken people in a country as rich as Canada, but hundreds of thousands of us are struggling financially.			1865
Quote ... unquote.			314
Ranking the rich.			1540
Relief in sight?			3233
Setting targets.			2326
The problem of inequality: some people argue that the most successful societies produce the highest quality of life for the greatest number of people, and the best way to achieve that is through government policies. Others say nay, nay, anything less than a free-market society interferes with freedom.			439
Worlds apart.			2711