Nova Scotia’s Queens County has one of the highest rates of child poverty in Canada, according to The 2024 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia.
The new report on child and family poverty in Canada ranks Nova Scotia as the worst in Atlantic Canada and one of the worst in the whole country in reducing child poverty. And Queens is a top problem spot in the province.
The report, which looked at household incomes from 2022 based on tax filings, found that more than one in five children live in poverty in Nova Scotia, or 23.8 per cent. In Queens County, the numbers are even worse, where 31.5 per cent of children live in poverty, the fourth highest rate in Nova Scotia. That’s a 10 per cent increase over the numbers from 2021, representing 510 children.
The rate is even higher in Liverpool at 32.8 per cent.
