CDNS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Visible Minority, Gini Coefficient, Food Bank
26 Feb 2017
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More canadians (esp. younger) work in temporary jobs, moving from contract to contract. People who maintaining regular employment but remain in relative poverty because of low levels of pay and dependent expenses. More women are working- need for double. Successive governments- successive cuts to social safety net. Employment insurance almost inexistent for most workers. Welfare declining, dropping further below poverty line. Affecting the lives of 1. 7 mil canadians. In on a disabled person on welfare gets 12,057$/ year (about 58% of what is needed) Imagine how it is to live with ,000. The social safety net no longer catches most working. 25% of canadians have received or are currently receiving assistance from food bank or charitable group. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The richest 20% canadian families take home 46% of total earnings. Gap between the real average income of the richest and poorest canadians rose from ,300 (1976) to ,500 (2009)
