FRHD 3090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: David Croll, Market Basket, Parental Leave
12 Sep 2013
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The trouble is, it"s too rich at the top and too poor at the bottom senator david croll, For years government agencies, social researchers, and advocacy groups have struggled to arrive at meaningful standards of impoverishment level of family income, cost or housing, food, clothing, fuel, etc. Canada has not arrived at an official" definition of poverty and relies, uneasily, on stats canada"s low-income cut- offs (licos) to identify the poor. A market basket approach" is currently the centre of heated debate analyst"s determine the necessities the average. Canadian family needs for economic c and social existence (transportation, shelter, clothing, personal care, household needs, furniture, telephone, reading, recreation, schools supplies, etc. : families unable to afford the market basket are considered poor". The poverty line according to the market basket measure (1997) for a family of four in a large city is. ,647, in contrast to the lico of ,377 (pre-tax)
