POLS 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fraser Institute, Policy Network
19 Jan 2018
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In canada poverty is a structural issue where are in nortic countries child poverty is a social aspect (and its lower in these countries) . 99 per family of four per week last year. 1 in 10 children belong to deprivation family. 2011 child poverty rate 13. 8% (lim) (down from 2009, but there was a recession in 2009) 4 in 10 children living in poverty lived in family with full time employment. 2013 avg unemployment rate was 7. 6%, above the 6. 5% from 2008. 1 in 4 of aboriginals children with disabilities children of female lone families. Cost of poverty- total econ cost of poverty 10. 4- 13. 2 billion $ per year in. Hidden cost: administration, health care, education, justice system, social exclusion family violence. 2013- ontario was second worst level of income inequality in canada, we are less healthy at every level of income (1st was alberta )
