{"id":10614,"date":"2014-05-17T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T04:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2014-05-17T01:26:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:26:55","slug":"census-change-makes-it-hard-to-track-progress-on-poverty-new-brunswick-premier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/17\/census-change-makes-it-hard-to-track-progress-on-poverty-new-brunswick-premier\/","title":{"rendered":"Census change makes it hard to track progress on poverty: New Brunswick premier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_115017688.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10616\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_115017688.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_115017688\" width=\"1000\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_115017688.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_115017688-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">FREDERICTON\u2014The premier of New Brunswick and a Crown agency mandated to reduce poverty say the demise of the long-form census has made it difficult to measure whether the province is making progress on the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The comments from David Alward and the New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation came as a new five-year plan for poverty reduction was released today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Alward says the elimination in 2010 of the long-form census has made it hard to find the data needed to measure whether the first five-year poverty reduction plan, which expires in November, has been successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Brian Duplessis, the co-chairman of the New Brunswick Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation, says the agency is now looking to other sources of data, especially to measure changes in local communities, and an assessment of poverty reduction will be issued next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">The report released today by the Crown agency contains a number of recommendations including indexing the minimum wage, improving public transportation and child literacy programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\">Alward says his government will review the recommendations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON\u2014The premier of New Brunswick and a Crown agency mandated to reduce poverty say the demise of the long-form census &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}