Measuring Poverty
What is the term used by Statistics Canada to define low-income households?
What is the Low-Income Cut-Off (LICO)?
This type of poverty means not being able to meet basic survival needs.
What is absolute poverty?
What is the term for employed individuals who still live in poverty due to low wages?
What are the working poor?
What percentage of First Nations people had completed high school by 2011?
What is 22.8%?
Increasing this helps low-wage workers afford basic needs.
What is the minimum wage?
According to LICO, what percentage of income spent on necessities indicates poverty?
What is 55%?
This type of poverty is based on comparison to others in the same economy.
What is relative poverty?
Approximately how many children in Canada lived in poverty in 2015?
What is 1 in 6 (or 17%)?
What causes many houses on reserves to be uninsured?
What is not meeting insurance requirements?
This type of housing is seen as a solution to help those in poverty.
What is affordable housing?
What is the average percentage of income Canadians spend on necessities?
What is 35%?
Absolute poverty is associated with this term.
What is deprivation?
What kind of poverty involves people who are unemployed due to illness, age, or single parenthood?
What is welfare poverty?
What long-lasting issue was caused by residential schools?
What is generational trauma?
Improving access to this allows parents to work more hours.
What is child care?
In which year did 13% of Canadians live in poverty according to LICO?
What is 2015?
Relative poverty is associated with this term.
What is exclusion?
What percentage of children in single-parent households live in poverty?
What is 40%?
In what year was a video released of Innu children expressing suicidal thoughts?
What is 1993?
Poor children are at a disadvantage in school due to this common health issue.
What is malnutrition?
LICO is based on spending on which three necessities?
What are food, shelter, and clothing?
A family that can survive but can’t afford internet access is an example of what kind of poverty?
What is relative poverty?
What indicator shows an increase in poverty in the GTA between 2001 and 2016?
What is the increase in food bank visits?
What federal relocation led to social and economic harm for the Innu people?
What is the relocation to a more modernized island location?
This long-term cycle happens when poor children grow up to become poor adults.
What is generational poverty?