Our kids deserve better
CKNW (AM980)
11/21/2008

BC's Children and Youth representative says a new study on child poverty in BC paints a bleak picture. She's hoping both the Liberals and New Democrats can work together for poor children.

The BC Child Poverty Report Card says in 2006, BC had the child poverty rate in Canada for the fifth year in a row and an estimated 181-thousand poor children lived in our Province.

BC's Children and Youth representative, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, calls it staggering, "There are compromised health outcomes. The biggest correlation with poor school outcomes is poverty, so is the school system meeting the needs? And when we look at economic challenges, are we going to consider the needs of these children?"

Turpel-Lafond says she's also very concerned the situation for aboriginal children in BC is getting worse…