Despite misleading claims, senior poverty in B.C has fallen significantly over the past four decades.
measuring poverty
June 13, 2018
9:01AM
Any poverty line connected to average or median incomes is a "relative" measure.
July 28, 2016
3:06PM
For the vast majority of Canadians living in low income, their experience is temporary as they are able to transition out quickly.
February 15, 2016
12:21PM
Only 1.5 per cent of Canadians remained stuck in low income every year.
January 26, 2016
10:17AM
As the federal government contemplates a national “poverty reduction strategy,” a better and more complete understanding of the state of poverty in Canada is required.
December 22, 2015
3:12PM
Campaign 2000 is crudely measuring income inequality, not poverty.
November 28, 2013
2:00AM
Every year around this time theres a flurry of studies, reports and media stories about the state of poverty in Canada, especially child poverty. We are told that as many as one-seventh of Canada's kids live in poverty. And the accompanying descriptions of the predicament of those children paint a picture of hunger and of serious deprivation.
