SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Daily Bread Food Bank, Welfare Fraud, Food Bank
29 Nov 2016
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Social assistance payments are well below the lico. Toronto study found that most people leaving welfare find jobs that are unstable and low laying. Families on welfare tend to be small: almost 50% gave one child, 31% have two children. Fraud- rate of tax fraud is 20% of income tax; rate of welfare fraud is 3% Why aren"t people on social assistance working: layoff or business closing, lack or work is most common reason, disability is second most common reason. The daily bread food bank (toronto) report: 41. 1% of food bank clinets on welfare have at least some college or university. People spend most of their welfare income on rent. It has to do with teenage power, or rather the lack of it. Teenagers have little economic or political power. They are ruled by teachers, parents, employers. By creating a social world in which they evaluate one another they provide themselves with a sense of power.
