HLST 3510 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Developed Country, Market Basket, Welfare
6 May 2017
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This chapter will define poverty and will measure its incidence in canada. Many people want to know how so many people live in poverty. Different groups have (at different times) developed various measures which divided the population into who is poor and who isn"t. Poverty is intrinsically a question of social consensus, at given point in time and in the context of a given country. For many years, statistics canada has published a set of measures called the low income cut off (lico: these are different measures of poverty, reflects a well-developed methodology. Poverty has always been seen as a failure of the individual to cope with the requirements of the economic and social systems. During the 20th century, municipalities aided the able bodied and jobless. During the depression and the repression, the government decided to step in: the assistance had to be repaid however. Well into the 19th century, ontario had no regular system for poor relief.
