HLST 3510 Chapter 5: Pathways to Poverty

• School: York University
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLST 3510
• Professor: Dennis Rafael

Document Summary

This chapter covers the latest evidence of how people come to be poor in canada. Many people are born into poverty because their parents already live in poverty. Others come to be poor once their parents move into poverty. Marriage, birth of children or loss of employment can also ass to poverty. The probability of experiencing poverty as an adult is shaped by previous life situations. The importance of how a society chooses to distribute resources among the population is downplayed or ignored. Poverty is the experience of material and social deprivation that results from a lack of economic resources. For those engaged in the employment market, the marketplace stratifies individuals based on social class, education, gender, race, disability status and immigrant status, producing greater vulnerability to poverty for those at the bottom of the employment hierarchy. People who don"t have paid employment are increasing their chances of experiencing poverty. Life situations, life events and the experience of poverty.