Worst for child poverty

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A child poverty report card says an increasing number of children live in poverty in Canada, but no where is the problem more desperate than in Manitoba.

The report says almost one in five children across the country lives below the poverty line.

But that number is one in three children in Manitoba.

Sid Frankel, one of the report's authors, says more children in Manitoba are slipping into poverty despite a provincial strategy introduced in 2009.

He says their parents tend to have low-paying, precarious jobs and don't get enough tax breaks to lift them out of poverty.

The report is calling on the Manitoba and federal governments to make specific child poverty targets and boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour.