"You know that you are poor when you need to wait to give your child his asthma medicine because you can't afford the aero-chamber."
Media
Do The Math in the Media
- Toronto Star: Can city candidates campaign on an empty stomach?
- CAW: Letter to Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario
- BlogTO: How can we better feed Toronto families in need?
- Huffington Post: Food Bank Diet: Prominent People Try Surviving On Welfare Diet
- Globe and Mail: Living on a welfare diet
- Toronto Star: What's it like to live on food bank fare?
- CTV News talks to Dr. David McKeown about Do The Math
- Pitchfork News: F**ked Up's Damian Stays Busy
- Toronto Star: Eating on welfare
- Damian Abraham of the band F**ked Up blogs about Do The Math
- Good Food Revolution: The Stop's Do The Math Campaign
- City TV: Some Prominent Torontonians to Get a Taste of Life on Social Assistance
- Inside Toronto: The Stop Invites Torontonians to Do The Math
- National Post: Looking Like Celebrities but Eating Like the Poor
- 680 News: Can You Survive on Three Days of Food for One Week?
- The Toronto Star: Reality of Living on Social Assistance
- Do The Math Challenge: Press Release
General Articles About the Issues
- Ontario commission calls for integrated welfare program to include the disabled and remove barriers to work
- Ontario budget: Child benefit increase being delayed and social assistance rates frozen
- UN food envoy blasts inequality, poverty in Canada
- How Toronto is failing when it comes to food access
- Food banks only a Band-Aid
- Homelessness: Ontario’s $21 million cut likely to leave more people without a roof
- It’s time to build dignity into Ontario social assistance
- Reality of living on social assistance (April 6, 2010)
- Toronto's Medical Officer of Health to call for $100 welfare hike (Feb 2009)
- Plan is (good) food for thought: Top doc (Feb 2009)
- Food supplement 'can't wait'
- Putting healthy food within reach
- Put food in the budget
- Increase social assistance to put food in the budget
- Making the math meet: Calculating what it takes to live a healthy life in Toronto
- New campaign lets you do the math on income security
- Group calls for increases in social assistance
