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2012 child poverty report card

18 Nov 2012

The latest figures from Statistics Canada (2010) show BC near the bottom of the heap when it comes to most major measures of poverty: •. BC had an overall poverty rate of 15.5 percent – the worst rate of any province in Canada using the before- tax low income cut-offs of Statistics Canada as the measure of poverty. [...] The ratio of the average incomes of the richest ten percent compared to the poorest ten percent was the worst of any province at 13.8 to one. [...] The main reason for higher poverty rates in Vancouver and other large cities in Canada is that poverty lines are based on the size of the area of residence. [...] In 2010, the sample BC two-parent family was at 51 percent of the poverty line for a large city, and the BC lone-parent family was at 61 percent of the poverty line. [...] The calculations start with the total welfare incomes reported by the National Council of Welfare for the year and the province and family type in question.
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Pages
31
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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