SWRK 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Median Income, Friends House
21 Mar 2017
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How can people in canadian society work full-time and still live in poverty. Poverty is often tied to the idea of social exclusion the economic, social, and political marginalization of people in society. The idea here is that participation means achieving a certain level of health and well-being in society. Poverty is often also tied to powerlessness not having a voice in society. Difference between mbm and lico: mbm allows for government to keep people in poverty, lico compares the basket in the moment to your income, and if you spend more than 20% of the basket, you are in poverty. The feminization of poverty: rooted in the idea that women are exposed to higher levels of poverty, particularly. Indg, differently-abled, racialized, senior, or lone parent women: women are subject to higher levels of poverty because their labour in the home in. Children are poor because their parents are poor" [pg. The cycle of poverty: maslow"s hierarchy of needs.
