Under the umbrella of United Way Perth-Huron lies the Social Research and Planning Council, a group Sean Jolliffe is the Co-Chair of. The intention of the council is to identify social issues in Huron-Perth and then become a leading force in mobilizing the community to help those outstanding issues.
Poverty is something that’s been identified as a key concern as United Way Perth-Huron say 10% of children go to bed hungry in Perth County and 11% of the children do the same in Huron Bruce.
One of the many factors which leads to those high figures is employees being paid less than living wage, Jolliffe says.
Living wage has been identified as $17.55 per hour.
Jolliffe says they’re in the process of developing a taskforce of stakeholders to remove poverty in the two counties and are looking at getting that up and running in the new year.
