CHILD POVERTY RATE IN SASKATCHEWAN HIGHEST IN CANADA

Scott Moe Continues To Pile Costs Onto Families Struggling To Make Ends Meet
SASKATOON – The number of children living in poverty is worse in Saskatchewan than any other province in Canada — and Scott Moe’s only answer is to continue to tax groceries, children’s clothing and to refuse desperately needed rent control.

According to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, released Wednesday, 78,000 Saskatchewan children — 27.1 per cent — live in poverty.

Canada’s national child poverty rate is nearly 10 points lower than Saskatchewan’s at 18.3 percent.

“Scott Moe and the Sask. Party are making life more expensive and, frankly, it’s absolutely heartwrenching what they are putting too many young families and children though,” said Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck.

“Everything is more expensive, and young families are being crushed by the power rate hikes, taxes on groceries and children’s clothes, and rising rents. Saskatchewan is going in the wrong direction after 20 years of a Sask. Party government and people are leaving this province in droves.

“We have to act right here and right now to deliver change for families and make their lives more affordable.”

According the study, children under six in Saskatchewan are disproportionately likely to be living in poverty, with a 30.39 percent poverty rate — or almost one-third of all children. Almost one out of every two children in lone-parent families in Saskatchewan live in poverty (49.4 percent).

Carla Beck’s team continues to call on the Moe government to give hardworking families much-needed cost of living relief and remove the PST on children’s clothing as well as groceries, deliver rent control, and reverse course on the power bill and insurance rate hikes.

“Speaking as a former teacher, I know kids can’t learn in schools when they arrive hungry,” said Matt Love, Saskatchewan NDP Education Shadow Minister. “This is about giving our kids the best shot possible in life, and this government is failing miserably.

“If the Sask. Party cared about fixing this issue, we wouldn’t be ranked last in Canada. We need change and the only way we’ll get it is with a Carla Beck government.”

-30-

Latest posts

SCOTT MOE’S REFUSAL TO PROVIDE RELIEF KEEPS SMALL BUSINESSES UNDER WATER

Retail Sales Growth In Saskatchewan Dead-Last, Financial Anxiety For Consumers Highest In Canada
SASKATOON - Carla Beck’s team is standing with a Saskatoon small business owner, calling out Scott Moe for refusing to provide any relief despite sky-high costs, which will only be made worse by new tariffs.

REGINA PEDIATRIC DIABETIC CARE CHANGES LEAVE RURAL FAMILIES FEELING ABANDONED

Scott Moe’s Minister Brushed Off Changes Last Week, Said Health Authority Could Have Communicated Better
WOLSELEY — A mother from Wolseley is speaking out about an abrupt and harmful change to pediatric diabetic care in Regina that she says has disrupted care for her family and made an already difficult situation even harder to navigate.

SASK. PARTY MLA KEVIN WEEDMARK HOPSCOTCHED SASKATCHEWAN BY PRIVATE JET — WHO PAID?

Deleted Staff Video Shows Sask. Party’s Extravagant, Out-of-Touch ‘Day in the Life’
REGINA — Carla Beck’s Saskatchewan NDP is demanding answers after a Sask. Party MLA spent the day hopscotching Saskatchewan aboard a private jet — an extravagant “day in the life” documented by his own staff person in a since-deleted video.

CARLA BECK'S TEAM ONCE AGAIN CALLS ON SCOTT MOE TO GET BACK TO WORK AS TRUMP TRADE WAR ESCALATES

Sask. Party Continues To Play Political Games While Trump's Tariffs Damage Saskatchewan Industry and Jobs in Moose Jaw
MOOSE JAW – Carla Beck's team is calling on Scott Moe yet again to cancel his tee times, stop working on his summertime tan and get back to work addressing the serious harm being caused to hardworking Saskatchewan people amid the escalating trade war with Donald Trump.

NDP Caucus Office