Taking Stock - Poverty in Canada
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2022
- What does poverty in Canada look like and what can be done about it? Scott MacAfee, chair, National Advisory Council on Poverty
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thanks to employers forcing me to work 40 hours a week and paying me for 20 hours or less at min wage they kept me in poverty and I developed PTSD because of it.
Send people on mass more money and landlords will raise the rent. You receive $500 more per month and landlords jack the rent by $400. That's exactly what happened in B.C. when the Cristy Clark government cut $500 monthly cheques for people with young children. The problem is, those without children didn't receive the cash but faced the same rent increases.
I thought BC had rent controls?
The more you target the more you miss, and the more conditional it becomes with all the stigma of it being a rich to poor transfer.
They clearly stat all the areas that need to be raised out of poverty, and they do nothing about it. ODSP (Ontario Disability Support Program) is below the poverty line at a whopping $1,228 a month for a single person no children, who is living in housing (Market rent or rent-to-income)
I live in market rent at paying $937.76 plus electricity and tenant insurance. Every year my basic shelter cost goes up.
That $1,228 is suppose to cover all basic needs, food and shelter. Right and people with a disability have more expensive health care cost.
Thanks for telling the truth.
I am in the same ODSP murder boat.
The world is never going to improve until we care for vulnerable persons, Canadians have condoned government murder, we know that we are welcome to kill ourselves, we are not welcome to human basic needs. Pathetic third world country here, don't be fooled you break, you die here in this country.
My dada is also disabled, old, and can't work no more. He only get 200 a month bec of his wife's income (that came from lots of OT to make ends meet). He doesn't have a car, have trouble walking to even consider public transport, can't afford basic services like dentists and haircuts.
Canada, at the end of the day, is a very cold country that doesn't give a damn if you are unproductive. It makes logical sense but it is inhumane, heartless, cruel. It's like disability support is there just for the sake of being there.
Now ODSP is $1,308 a month and the Canadian poverty basket measure is claiming a single person needs $2,303 a month to live. @@dwargonedragon794
I am on Income support in AB not expected to work. I have severe COPD, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, long QT and depression. I get $350 a month to pay rent and that is not even close to what is needed for a 1 bdrm apartment. I have a total of $909 a month to pay rent, part bills, bus to many dr.s appts and food. If I was on AISH I would get almost $1800 a month. I am staying with a friend right now, but she is moving back home to BC in 3 months. I have tried to find somewhere to go, but it looks like I will be homeless. I tried to get on AISH and was denied. There is no possible way for me to work, but on AISH which is so hard to be accepted.. you are allowed to work! MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! I am seriously considering contacting MAID and applying for medical assistance in dying.
The way canada sells it self on world stage, and the reality of what it's people go thrue is totally different. I had to find it the hard way. This is one of the best first world country at least that's we what we keep hearing. The first time I saw canadian people begging money in city down I was so shocked. The first morning I saw people sleeping infront of the mall just to be heated from the cold. Sure some of those people have drug problems some have mentel problems. I always wonder why this rich country can not afford to give basic housing to its citizens. There are no homeless people in dubia yet canada is much richer then UAE, findland is also the same. Stay strong friend things might get better. Is there a way I can donate some money to you.? I would love to help you out. Again plz don't k..ll your self.
Don’t do it please! I understand it’s hard! But honestly praying to Christ helps me. I pray he can help you out of your situation.🙏🏾❤️.
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The UAE has homeless people. Mainly foreign migrants as social assistance is restricted to citizens.
@@shauncameron8390Foreign migrants aren't homeless, they have jobs and most even have company housing. Have you been to UAE?
If you are 65 to 75 years old, you should'
Be getting the same increase in O.A.S as
Seniors who are 75 years old. My costs have all increased!!!
1. Giving away a luxury service
2. Canada has a balance budget but can't raise the drawbridge? Sounds like a bribe!
When investment money 🤑 flows into Land and Construction, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer 🥺
Nice social contract
You work hard all your life and if it's in a low paying job where you essentially can't save for retirement your screwed when it comes time to retire. When the choice is between paying for food or for bills and the government refuses to give people enough for basic nessecities then things are seriously screwed up.
Due to complacency. You had about 40 years to improve your financial situation and/or get a better-paying job. Yes you may have worked hard all your life, but that doesn't mean you know how to manage money.
Save money and retire elsewhere cheaper than Canada. And yeah, why would you stay around minimum wage? If you grew up in Canada, you have all the time to study, pick up a trade, or make money-making schemes.
Anyway, I do know a boomer who kept insisting we should stay working poor bec "we can't bring wealth to hell", "living poor is the best", "I managed to send my kids to school with my warehouse job".
I don’t care. It’s a doggy dog world. Pull yourself up from your boot straps. ☕️
'REPORT shows that women have the burden' Reports says that's because they want to have the burden !
Because they think it's men's and society's job to relieve them of that burden they brought upon themselves. After all, it's sexist to expect women to suffer the consequences of their own decisions.
To end poverty we to make everyone EQUAL and for that to happen we need a strong leader and a small group of lieutenants who will carry out the leader’s instructions for our equal good. Vote Democrat! Vote Michael R. Bloomberg.
If you make everyone equally poor you will have high crime and ghetto's. There will be zero incentive to work and improve one's situation. You are playing right into the NWO, you will have nothing but I highly doubt you'll be happy.
LOL. Equality does not and can not exist. Plus, some will wisely save and invest while others will foolishly waste it and then have the nerve to cry about being broke and hungry.
NO, humans are never equal. Some are born superior than others: smarter, taller, stronger, more attractive. In fact, we should be fighting harder to impose meritocracy.
What we need to do is not end poverty, but to make the poor have a comfortable honorable dignified life and the opportunity to ascend if they desire it and has the talent. So free higher education, limited slots and only the more secure careers. Create apprenticeships where the poor can work and study a trade at the same time. Mechanize and modernize so all these dirty dangerous demanding disgusting jobs will be done by AI or robots, and the increase profits will either go to taxes to fund free educ and apprenticeships, or probably a universal basic income.