SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Visible Minority, European Canadian, Child Poverty
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Poverty facts: canada: 1 in 10 canadians were living in poverty (2010). The top-earning 1 per cent of canadians almost doubled their share of national income, over the past 3 decades (until 2006). While earnings for the middle class stagnated and earnings for the low income group fell by 20. 6 percent. This undermines social cohesion (stats can: in 2012, a record 882,000 canadians used food banks each month, the highest level of food bank usage ever, mcmaster univ. Study (2010)found a 21-year difference in life expectancy between the poorest neighbourhood and the wealthiest neighbourhood in hamilton, ontario: out of 25 developed countries, canada ties for last place for failing to attain nine of. Unicef"s ten benchmark indicators of quality and access to early childhood education. Factors that put people at higher risk of poverty: who are the poor, geography, poverty rates vary across the country. Aboriginals: while the national unemployment average, as of october 2013, went down from.
