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category: Social Science
published: Dec 2010
ISBN:9781897071731
publisher: Between the Lines

Persistent Poverty

Voices From the Margins

by Brice Balmer; Mira Dineen & Jamie Swift

tagged: poverty & homelessness
Description

It’s a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up. Now he lives hand-to-mouth. His pockets are empty long before his next social assistance cheque arrives.

In early 2010 over two hundred civic and faith leaders fanned out into thirty Ontario communities. Their goal? To explore how the least fortunate people in one of the world’s richest places are faring.

The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s latest social audit exposed a tattered social assistance system run by volunteers desperately struggling to fill the gaps. There can be no papering over the savage inequalities and suffering exposed in this compelling look at life from the margins.

About the Authors

Brice Balmer

Brice Balmer is an adjunct professor in the Graduate Theological Studies program of Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo. He works in a variety of ecumenical and multi-faith organizations, and his research interests include spirituality, addiction, social justice and poverty.


Mira Dineen

Mira Dineen is entering her final year of study at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where she is completing her Honours B.A. in Global Development Studies.


Jamie Swift

Kingston writer Jamie Swift is the author of numerous books. He works on social justice issues for the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul and lectures at the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University.
Awards
  • Short-listed, Ontario Legislative Assembly Speaker's Book Award

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