FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Working Poor, Intellectual Disability

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Child and family poverty: it"s effect on child health. Definitions of poverty are not exhaustive or precise. Immensely complex problem to measure: founded on various simplifying assumptions, poverty varies from place to place, from decade to decade and even from household to household. Straitened circumstances : cut-offs levels are determined by annual surveys of family expenditure, 1959:stats concludes that families who spend more than 70 percent of their income of three essentials: (food, clothing and shelter) are living in straitened circumstances . Therefore, families that spend more than 70 percent of their income of essentials would have little or no income left to spend on other essentials such as transportation, health, personal care, education household operation, recreation or insurance. The working poor : main earners combined salaries barely covers the essentials of food, shelter and clothing, full-time wages do not eliminate the circumstances associated with poverty, families living above stats canada low income cut-offs are experiencing economic hardship.