by The 2025 Report Card on Child Poverty finds the child poverty rate in Cape Breton County was 31.5% using the latest taxfiler income data from 2023.
The Nova Scotia chapter of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that prepared the report card says that’s a drop of 2.8 percentage points compared to 2022 data.
The child poverty rate for the entire province was 22.7% and that’s a drop of 4.6 percentage points from 2022.
Meanwhile, report card co-author Christine Saulnier says the decreases in child poverty rates is not progress.
Saulnier says the structural drivers reflected in the 2023 data — low wages, inadequate income supports, and unaffordable housing — remain in place today.
