Journal Entry 1 by jenny-lou-who from St. Catharines, Ontario Canada on Friday, January 24, 2003

I've heard really good things about this book and am especially interested in reading it now that I've read
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. I'm quite anxious to read about these issues in a Canadian context and am interested in how Hurtig approaches the issue of poverty.

From the back cover: "In Pay the Rent of Feed the Kids, Mel Hurtig presents an abundance of new information about the extent of poverty in Canada. In this angry, hard-hitting book, he not only examines the causes of Canada's poverty crisis and the reasons why the poor have been so ignored, but he also presents a realistic program to substantially reduce poverty in Canada."