New Report: Child poverty rate double for racialized children in Toronto area

According to a new report, there is a great racial difference between the income of children in the Toronto area and their families.

According to data from the census of 2016, reports indicate that children in Toronto family members doubled the probability of poverty (25.3% versus 11.4%) compared to children of non - racial families )is. Than). The report also found that the poverty rate of indigenous families with children is extremely high, reaching 84%.

In Toronto, more than a quarter (26.3%) of children under the age of 18 live in the poor - the highest in the Canadian metropolitan area

The poverty rate of children of black families is about three times that of non-ethnic families.

In the Toronto area, nearly half of the West Asia (46.8%) and Arabs (46.7%) background children live in poverty.

Jessica Mustaci, who campaigned the Ontario campaign in 2000, says: "This report clearly shows that indigenous peoples, ethnic groups, and families of immigrants are subjected to the greatest blows of inequality." Such deeply uneasy family income and experiences of poverty in Toronto There is a deep mismatch between. "

Toronto's executive director of social planning, Sean Meagher, says: "We know this, but we will continue to fund these services of the city budget.This report should be an awake phone."

In 2015, the city of Toronto adopted a poverty reduction strategy outlining comprehensive change and investment in services that affect low-income groups. However, through several budgets, the city council has not yet provided adequate funding for these promises.

Michael Polanie of the Child Relief Society states as follows. "In order for our committee to continue to decline, we need a holistic approach - there is no serious - there is a serious ethnic gap." In 2018, we fully funded the poverty reduction strategy. "

"Inequality Cities" by Toronto Child Aid Association, Toronto Social Program, Toronto Family Service, 2000 Campaign, Ontario State Service Immigration Council and Poverty Color

The new report released this month shows that the Toronto area is still a country with children's poverty. Inequality cities developed by Toronto CAS and key community partners - Toronto Social Planning, Poverty Color Network, Ontario State Services Immigration Council, and the 2000 Child Poverty Alleviation Campaign - income from race, immigration, gender, indigenous people Delete change of discrepancy Delete identification line. Every day the Ontario Children's Aid Association is seeing the impact of poverty on the family. According to a study by Barbara Fallon of the University of Toronto and NicoTrocmé of the University of McGill, the case of most child welfare is the result of "long-term needs" - the family is part of the problem of poverty, mental health and / Or have experienced everything. Factors driving these long-term demand cases including structural and systematic racial discrimination can not be solved by the child welfare system alone.

For new immigrant families - many of them are also ethnic - almost half of the children in the Toronto area in Canada over the past 5 years live in poverty. According to a report entitled "Inequality in the city: a difference hidden between children and young people in Toronto", this is nearly three times the poverty rate experienced by children of nonimmigrant families. According to the census, if their household income is lower than the low income tax on Canada Statistics Bureau, Toronto's household income is $ 31,301, according to the census, family income was $ 4,466 in 2015 Child We are considered to live in poverty. This calculation is calculated as 50% of the median of household income after tax.