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CCPA CANADIAN CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES MANITOBA The Next Step: Literacy Programming in Manitoba By Jim Silver JANUARY 2016 The Next Step: About the Author: Literacy Programming in Manitoba Jim Silver is Chair of the University of Winnipeg's isbn 978-1-77125-241-6 Department of Urban and InnerCity Studies. [...] Those with For Aboriginal people, levels of educational low literacy skills suffer poorer health and add attainment continue to be lower and the inci- disproportionately to the costs of the health care dence of poverty continues to be higher than system (Rootman and Ronson 2005). [...] In this way literacy resource - the creative and productive poten- problems contribute to the intergenerational tial of particularly large numbers of the people transmission of poverty. [...] The Nex T STep: LiTer ac y progr a mmiNg iN m aNiToba 3 The Federal Approach to Literacy Programming In the 1980s and early 1990s literacy advocates similar cuts to national and provincial organiza- were successful in raising awareness of literacy tions - women's and Aboriginal organizations as an issue in Canada. [...] The importance and services to those among the poor who are of locating services close to where low-income the least disadvantaged, and who are the closest people live has been made very clear in recent to being able to escape poverty.