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From data to action: Policy implications of Welfare in Canada, 2024

September 9, 2025

This policy brief shows how social assistance and associated benefits keep people in deep poverty, and offers recommendations to raise incomes, fix shelter benefits, and redesign the Canada Disability Benefit.

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