Child and family poverty in Saskatchewan

Part time and seasonal workers earn 54¢, women of colour earn 38¢, and Aboriginal Many of the poor are adults who live outside f amilies women a mere 46% of what men are paid.8 In 2007, as unattached individuals.6 Of the 130,000 poor indi the average earnings of women working full time, viduals accounted for in the 2006 Census, 46,000 full year ($44,700) were only 71.4% of those of their were una [...] In Saskatchewan the child poverty rate is age 18 has declined for over thirty years, there has 15.6%, meaning 33,000 children in this province live been an upturn in the number of births since 2005 in poverty. [...] Only in the last few years has the provincial 37% of poor children live poverty rate for this group of children decreased from with a family member a long standing average well above 50% to 36.9% in 2008, slightly below the national average of 38.1%. [...] But the gains of the bottom 80% of the population were far from sufficient to reduce In 2007 and 2008, many of the lowest income f amilies the growing gap. [...] LICOs consider children MBM is what to include in the “basket” of essential to be in low income if they live in a household that goods and services and how to weight the relative spends more than 20% above the average on food, importance of the various items.25 clothing, and shelter, adjusted for household size and population area.