Saskatchewan has the third highest child poverty rate in Canada.

Today in the first part of a five-part series, CJWW news looks at the situation through the eyes of an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Regina.

Miguel Sanchez is the co-author of the report “Child and Family Poverty in Saskatchewan”

Statistics compiled in the report suggest over a quarter of Saskatchewan children have lived below the poverty line since 2008 with the lowest figure over that ten year period at 26-percent.

Sanchez says the numbers alone are alarming and even more troubling considering federal parliament unanimously vowed to eliminate child poverty in 1989.

He also feels governments have been understating the problem through a flawed formula for defining child poverty which is the subject of part two tomorrow.