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OFF THE CLUFF: Winning the War on Poverty (w/ Roslyn Kunin)
You don’t hear much about this trend, but it’s clear the War on Poverty is being won.
For two decades, statistics show the number of Canadians living below the poverty line has been dropping – to just 7.8 per cent of the population in 2018. It’s not zero, but it is significant progress.
Roslyn Kunin is a consulting economist and senior fellow of the Canada West Foundation. She recently wrote a piece for The Orca on the fight against poverty. Roslyn joined Rick Cluff in studio.
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Biography
Dr. Roslyn Kunin is one of those rare economists who can make the often difficult subject of economics understandable and even interesting. Kunin has worked in the private sector, written a weekly newspaper column, taught at several Canadian universities including Simon Fraser and UBC. She served twenty years as Regional Economist for the federal government in B.C. and Yukon and ten years as the Executive Director of the Laurier Institution. She gives presentations on the economy and related matters and is in private practice as a consulting economist.