SOCI 3660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Roofer, Fatalism, Neoliberalism
22 Apr 2017
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People have a variety of income insecurity in their life course. There is no official poverty line in canada: no one has agreed on what the official poverty line is. We have an ambiguous sense of what poverty is. Someone is poor in relation to the average or median income . These relative measures, the average/median income, are the incomes that would allow these families to afford such necessities. The low-income cutoff is a relative measure of poverty because it compares those who are considered low-income to those who are not. Statistics canada"s low income cut offs (lico"s) is one common relative measure of poverty. Where a family spends 20% more on food, shelter, and clothing than an average family spends: average: 34. 7% The average canadian family spent 34. 7% of their income on food, shelter, and clothing: low income: 54. 7% The low income family spend 54. 7% of their income on food, shelter, and clothing.
