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Books produced by ISARC
the findings from our social audits
Launching December 1, 2010...
 
Persistent Poverty: Dispatches from the Margins
ISARC 2010 Social Audit
by Brice Balmer, Mira Dineen, Jamie Swift
(Between the Lines, 2010)
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 Lives Still in the Balance
Ontario's Social Audit
(Pandora Press,
2007)
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This new edition of Lives in the Balance reveals how little Ontario has accomplished to help its poorest citizens in the past four prosperous years.(0)
First published in 2003, Lives in the Balance described the results of 15 community consultations held across the province by ISARC. It combined the stories of low-income people with expert analysis of policies necessary to end the scandal of poverty in such a wealthy province. The previous decade's cutbacks had devastated the lives of our most vulnerable neighbours.
This new updated edition reveals that little has changed. Despite the noble words of a new government, Ontario remains fractured by savage inequalities. ISARC, representing Ontario's major faith communities for over 20 years, continues to press for a society free of poverty.
 Lives in the Balance
Ontario's Social Audit
(Pandora Press, 2004)
Nearly two million people in Ontario live in poverty. How have the cutbacks of the past decade affected them? What does the housing crisis really mean for families and individuals? Can governments do anything about widespread hunger, homelessness, and poverty?
ISARC, which represents Ontario's major faith communities, set out to find answers. More than 1500 people took part in 15 community consultations across Ontario during 2003. Many were low-income people whose voices are rarely heard in our society. Lives in the Balance tells their stories, along with analysis of the issues we face, and policy proposals to end the scandal of poverty in our wealthy province.
 Our Neighbours' Voices
Will We Listen?
(James Lorimer & Co. Ltd., 1998)
This book is filled with the personal accounts of low-income people who came to community meetings across Ontario during 1997. ISARC sponsored these Neighbour to Neighbour Hearings to listen to those whose voices are too often ignored.
In addition, Our Neighbours' Voices provides documentation and analysis of the extent of poverty in Ontario and offers policy recommendations, both for the provincial government and federal governments.
The personal accounts in this book express fear, desperation, and anger. These are the voices of our neighbours. They have a moral claim on us, as a society, to meet their basic needs.
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