by Cape Breton’s child poverty rate is down in the latest report from the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
The 2020 data used in the report puts Cape Breton’s child poverty rate at 24.8 percent.
That’s down from 33.5 in the previous report.
However, the report’s authors say the child poverty rate in Nova Scotia would have increased without temporary pandemic benefits, including the CERB.
The child poverty rate in the federal riding of Sydney-Victoria went down to 26.1 percent from 35 percent in the latest report.
The rate in Cape Breton-Canso fell to 20.1 percent from 26.8 while the overall child poverty rate in the province dropped to 18.4 percent from 24.3 percent.