The Do the Math ‘Challenge’ is a follow-up to the Do the Math Survey, which asks you to calculate the minimum that a single person needs to afford housing, food and everything else. Over 7000 Ontario residents have completed the survey. If you have not yet done the survey why not fill it in now?

These two activities are part of the Put Food in the Budget campaign which began in January 2009 in response to the Poverty Reduction Strategy of Premier McGuinty’s government. That poverty reduction strategy did nothing to address the chronic hunger faced every month by thousands of people in Ontario.

The Put Food in the Budget Campaign has two demands

• An immediate increase of $100 per month for every adult receiving social assistance as a first step towards addressing the inadequacy of current social assistance benefits

• A fair and transparent way of setting social assistance rates so that people can meet their basic needs and lead a healthy and dignified life.

This campaign is sponsored by:

• The Stop Community Food Centre.

The campaign is supported by

• Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA)
• Anglican Diocese of Toronto
• Association of Ontario Health Centres
• Canadian Auto Workers’ Union
• Colour of Poverty
• CUPE Ontario
• Ontario Women’s Health Network
• OPSEU
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
• Schizophrenia Society of Ontario