Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Leadership Summit on Poverty Reduction

Keynote speaker Mark Chamberlain, chair of the Hamilton Roundtable on Poverty Reduction described poverty reduction in Halton at the Halton Regional Centre in Oakville. The event was reported in the Milton Champion Tuesday November 30th on the front page. In Halton 8.5% of the population lies under the poverty line. Halton Hills Councillor Clark Somerville commented on the 'living the math' exercise; saying that they couldn't make it work in trying to devise a monthly budget based on a single income that a single person receives on Ontario Works if $561.

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