Search
Skip to Search Results- 42Poverty
- 33Poverty--Statistics
- 26Canada, Alberta, Edmonton
- 15Poverty--Prevention
- 12Canada, Alberta
- 11Public welfare--Statistics
- 33Edmonton Social Planning Council
- 8Kolkman, John
- 5Community Trends Working Group
- 4Ahorro, Joseph
- 4Public Interest Alberta
- 3Edmonton Gleaners Association
- 45Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)
- 19Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)/Poverty and Social Assistance (Edmonton Social Planning Council)
- 13Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC)/Children, Youth and Family (Edmonton Social Planning Council)
- 9Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 9Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 7Toolkit for Grant Success
-
Organizing Against Poverty in Edmonton: A Case Study of EndPovertyEdmonton Movement Organization
DownloadSpring 2022
This study examines the antipoverty efforts and social movement-building approach of EndPovertyEdmonton (EPE). In the context of poverty, social movement organizing refers to groups of actors working together as a collective and in a coordinated manner to change fundamental structures that...
-
Outside the city walls: the construction of poverty in Alberta's Income and Employment Supports Act
DownloadFall 2010
Goa, Birte Hannah Katherine Ruth
Considerable research has been done on conceptions of poverty and on the welfare state; however, there is little research into the relationship between the two – the ways in which poverty discourses shape welfare states and how transitions in welfare states influence poverty discourses. Using...
-
1998-07-01
Edmonton Social Planning Council
In May 1997 over two hundred poor people came together at the first Western Canada Poor People's Conference in Edmonton to discover the magnitude of the problem, its causes and consequences, and possible solutions. This three day event was designed to provide insights to the social and individual...
-
-
2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Although bankruptcy should not be a side effect of sickness, many Canadians are pushed over this financial precipice by an illness or injury. Public programs, such as the federal employment insurance sickness benefit and provincial workers' compensation programs, are...