January 12, 2019
The Community Press – Vancouver
Lori Culbert
‘The poverty children face is often hidden from us,’ say agencies helping the 20 per cent of B.C. kids who are poor
• One in five of all B.C. children — 172,550 kids — lives in poverty, and that jumps to one in three for off-reserve Indigenous children.
• Nearly half of recent child immigrants are impoverished.
• Half of children in poverty are raised by single parents, mostly by mothers.
• Youth aging out of foster care are 200 times more likely to become homeless before the age of 25.