FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Health Canada, Working Poor

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Child and family poverty: it"s effect on child health. Canada has a very high rate of child impovershiment- 20% Aboriginal children make up a large portion of this. On and off reserves, out of urban centres. In the us poverty gap is a lot larger because of poor minimum wage pay. Haven"t seen a change in the rate of child poverty. Children suffer the most from problems of the economy. Agencies and organizations in canada measure poverty in different ways. Lines of income inequality developed by the canadian council on social development. The only kind of poverty we see is homelessness. Rarely see a young child standing on the street corners begging for money because there taken into custody. Poverty varies from city to city and between families. Lines of income inequality developed by the canadian council on social development (ccsd) Definitions of poverty are not exhaustive or precise.