GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Three Cities, Main Source, Welfare
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Lecture 11 - poverty and food insecurity in everyday lives: the three cities. City #2: mainly middle-income area, since 1970, neighbourhood incomes have remained fairly close to the cma average. Employment insurance, worker"s compensation, benefits from canada pension plan, old age security and guaranteed income supplement, provincial/municipal social assistance or welfare and child tax. Benefit: alternative sources of income: wages and salaries, income from self-employment, dividends and interest (e. g. , on bonds and savings), job-related retirement pensions, rrsp/rrif (registered retirement. Food desserts: areas of poor access to retail provision of healthy and affordable food, where the population is characterized with deprivation and compound social exclusion (wrigley 2002: access to food and food deserts . Material -- goods and conveniences of everyday life. "monitoring food insecurity in canada: shifting the conversation from charity to public policy" A talk by valerie tarasuk from the university of toronto, held for the food research collaboration on 13.
