Book Launch
Thursday, April 7
7 pm
McNally Robinson Grant Park
All are welcome

In Solving Poverty, Jim Silver, a vetran scholar actively engaged in anti-poverty efforts in Winnipeg’s inner city for decades, offers an on-the-ground analysis of this form of poverty. Silver focuses particularly on the urban Aboriginal experience, and describes a variety of creative and effective urban Aboriginal community development initiatives, as well as other anti-poverty initiatives that have been successul in Winnipeg’s inner city. In the concluding chapter Silver offers a comprehensive pan-Canadian strategy to dramatically reduce the incidence of urban poverty in Canada.