Welcome to our new website!

Please update your bookmarks and links.

We hope the information you find here will support your participation in local and national conversations about poverty, its costs to society, and most importantly, the solutions.

New features of the website include:

• an interactive map of welfare incomes
• customized tables and charts
• media summaries on poverty and related topics.

Enjoy your visit and don't forget to sign up for our RSS feed!

John Rook, Chairperson

Interactive Welfare Incomes Map

Move your cursor over each province or territory to view welfare incomes by household type for 2008. Click on the province or territory to see a chart of welfare incomes over time.

If you do not have Flash installed, or are having difficulty accessing the Interactive Map, click here to display the data in an accessible format.