SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Upper Class, Working Poor, International Inequality
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No official agree upon definition of poverty only common terms related to poverty. You are poor if you can"t make those purchases. So, either make those purchases, or you can"t. Relative poverty: you might be considered poor if you make less than people in your neighborhood. Its relative in terms of what you make to others. This is from statistics of canada, although it is not official. As a level of income at which more than 63% of that income is spent on basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter. If you spent over 63% of your incomes on the basic necessities, you are below the lico. (ex. Families living from pay cheque to pay cheque. ) Average canadian spent 43% on food, clothing, and shelter. The actual cutoff can various from community to community. (ex. shelter from peel region can cost differs from another region in canada. )
