Canadian Poor People Population
A Canadian Poor People Population is a poor people population that is a Canadian demographic.
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- See: Poverty, Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO), Low Income Measure (LIM), Market Basket Measure (MBM).
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Canada Retrieved:2022-8-21.
- Poverty in Canada refers to the state or condition in which a person or household lacks essential resourcesfinancial or otherwiseto maintain a modest standard of living in their community.
Researchers and governments have used different metrics to measure poverty in Canada including Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO), Low Income Measure (LIM), and Market Basket Measure (MBM).[1] In November 2018, Employment and Social Development Canada announced the establishment of Canada's first Official Poverty Line to be based on the Market Basket Measure (MBM). The MBM considers the cost of a basket of basic goods and services needed by a family of two adults and two children to maintain a modest standard of living.[2][3] [4]
There was an increase in poverty in Canada and many other industrial nations in the 1980s.[5] By 2008, Canada's poverty rate was among the highest of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member nationsthe wealthiest countries in the world.[6]
The number of people living below the official poverty line decreased substantially from 14.5% in 2015 to 10.1% in 2019,[7] and 6.4% in 2020.[8]
Child poverty in Canada declined since 2015, with the number of children who were living in poverty decreasing 71% by 2020. Child poverty has a disproportionately high effect on Indigenous households in Canada.[9] According to a 2019 study by researchers at the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), nearly 50% of Indigenous children in Canadaboth on and off reservewere living in poverty.[9]
As of 2020, about 2.4 million Canadians, or 6.4% of the population, lived below the poverty line, according to Statistics Canada Canadian Income Survey, 2020 released on March 23, 2022.[4]
- Poverty in Canada refers to the state or condition in which a person or household lacks essential resourcesfinancial or otherwiseto maintain a modest standard of living in their community.
- ↑ "Low Income in Canada: 2000-2006 Using the Market Basket Measure - October 2008". Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. Archived from the original on 22 June 2009.
- ↑ Opportunity for all: Canada's First Poverty Reduction Strategy (PDF) (Report). Employment and Social Development Canada. 21 August 2018. p. 108. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ↑ "The Daily — Canadian Income Survey, 2017". Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Daily — Canadian Income Survey, 2020". Government of Canada. Statistics Canada. 23 March 2022. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ↑ Kazemipur, Abdolmohammad; Halli, Shiva (1 March 2000). "The invisible barrier: Neighbourhood poverty and integration of immigrants in Canada". Journal of International Migration and Integration. 1 (1): 85–100. doi:10.1007/s12134-000-1009-1. ISSN 1874-6365. S2CID 145543834.
- ↑ Growing unequal? Income distribution and poverty in OECD countries, Paris, France: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2008
- ↑ "Canadian Income Survey, 2019". Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ↑ "Income in Canada, 2020". Government of Canada via Statistics Canada. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Beedie, Natasha; Macdonald, David; Wilson, Daniel. Towards Justice: Tackling Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada (PDF) (Report). Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. p. 25.