PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: School Hygiene, Old Age Security, Unemployment Insurance Act 1920

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Public assistance via government was on emergency basis. Since wwii, pace of social security has increased. Universal child care benefit (2006: absolute poverty, lacking minimum basic requirements for physical survival, relative poverty. Market basket measure (mbm): cost of a basket of goods that includes food, shelter, clothing, and other basic needs, accounting for regional variation. Stats can"s low income cutoff (lico) food clothing, and shelter. Takes into account family size, up to seven members and community size. Poverty lines set at a level where a family needs to spend more than 70% of income on. Depth: the amount of a family or individual income is below the poverty line. Breadth: other aspects associated with poverty (eg. illiteracy, poor health, physical insecurity) Poverty rates vary with fluctuations in the economy. Poverty rates are lowest for families with two or more earners. Poorest of the poor include homeless which are difficult to count.