"Full-time workers earn enough to support themselves and their families."

Reality

Poverty often persists. In 2004, more than 26,000 Alberta families with at least one full-time earner had been living in low-income households for three years or more. That same year, almost 60% of Alberta children living in poverty lived with at least one parent who was working full time.

Sources: Statistics Canada Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 2005; Canadian Policy Research Networks, 2007 Workers in Low-Income Households in Alberta