Poverty reduction in Saskatchewan

Those living in poverty are in a more difficult situation than the majority of the population – a level of deprivation not aligned with the general living standards enjoyed by the majority of the population (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2009). [...] Some of the more promising practices, including the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and measures that track poverty as related to the social determinants of health, are summarized in a paper published by the Tamarack Institute, Approaches to Measuring Less Poverty in Communities (2010). [...] Across all measures of low income, Saskatchewan has seen a reduction in the percentage of people living in poverty in the province over the past several years (Figure 2). [...] The rate of low income among lone-parent families dropped in Saskatchewan from 27.7% in 2007 to 17.8% in 2011, and the rate among female lone-parent families in Saskatchewan (no earners) dropped dramatically from a high of 92.2% in 2009 to 48.0% in 2011. [...] While the low income rate of recent immigrants dropped in the 2000s, it remained higher than that of non- immigrants and is unrelated to the overall drop in Canadian low income during this time (Picot and Hou, 2014).