by The Nova Scotia chapter of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says the child poverty rate in Nova Scotia made an historic increase of 11.4% in 2021.
It says the rate went up from 18.4% in 2020 to 20.5% in its latest child poverty report.
Meanwhile, the child poverty rate for the Cape Breton census area was 27.6 percent in 2021.
That’s up by 11.3 percent from 2020.
A further breakdown shows the federal riding of Sydney-Victoria had a child poverty rate of 29.1 percent in 2021, up by 11.5 percent from the year before.
The child poverty rate in Cape Breton-Canso in 2021 increased by 11.4 percent to 22.4 percent.