Jamie Swift, Brice Balmer, Mira Dineen, Persistent Poverty: Voices From The Margins

In early 2010 over 200 civic and faith leaders fanned out into 30 Ontario communities. Their goal? To explore how the least fortunate people in one of the world’s richest places are faring. The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s latest social audit exposed a tattered social assistance system run by volunteers desperately struggling to fill the gaps. There can be no papering over the savage inequalities and suffering exposed in this compelling look at life from the margins.