SOC345H5 Lecture Notes - Working Poor, Food Bank, Neoliberalism
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Mapping poverty: the growing gap and the economic apartheid. Video people have jobs, but they sleep in cars, why? the working poor being off from work, being laid off from work, falling behind on rent. Why do people not use shelters? too much noise, can"t sleep not comfortable. 13,500 people on the waitlist for social housing the wait is too long. Odsp people are excluded from the program even though they need it link from help from the odsp and poverty labour ready work that day, get paid that day. 1998: growing gap report: inequality between the rich and poor in canada. 2006: growing gap, growing concerns: canadian attitudes toward income inequality. 2007: canada"s rich and poor: moving in opposite directions. Myth: wealthy nation = economic growth for all. Gap between rich and poor incomes is growing . 1976: richest 10% of canadian families earn 31% more income than poorest 10%
