SOCWORK 3T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nuclear Family, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Legal Clinic
8 Oct 2016
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Provincial government raises minimum wage to . 40. Minimum wage now linked so the consumer price index. So as the cost of living goes up, the minimum wage should go up. Bill 6 passes second reading and will go to committee hearings. In canada, the poverty rate among racialized groups is 22% while it is 11% in the population and 9% for non-racialized groups. One in four workers in ontarion earns below the poverty line. This number is higher for women overall (31%) and women of colour especially (38%) 44% of racialized persons 25-64 years of age living in poverty have a university education compared to 25% for non-racialized persons in canada. Education doesn"t get them as far as it does for non-racialized persons. Compared to non-racialized persons living in poverty, racialized persons are more likely to be young, married, immigants, highly educated and unemployed. Incidence of poverty among lone mothers by ethno-racial group in toronto:
