Poverty in Toronto

You can be expelled, walking to save tokens, always choosing the cheapest and less nutritious foods, communicating the same information to government agencies many times, the possibility that other children will be rejected by you I am worried about. This is the life of too many Toronto people.

It is not always the case. Even in the 1970s, one out of ten adults was a poor, not one in five, two-thirds of the community were middle-income and not one third, and those looking for work Most of them were employed for employment insurance. It is not a minority group, it is helpful not for food banks but for income support.

In the past, education has lead to employment, employment has stabilized, and social support has enabled us to stand up again in the event of a crisis. That road is broken. Good work is getting hard to find. Almost half of the workers in the large Toronto area have no temporary, contractual, part-time job, constant working hours, lack of stability, and any benefit.

Education is still a wise long-term investment, but it is not immediately protected. Almost a quarter of university graduates are working on low wage jobs. Employment insurance can not be obtained easily. Ontario's labor rate has declined more than half over the past two decades. Parenting service is difficult to buy

At the same time, life in Toronto is becoming increasingly expensive everyday. Residents, transportation and health foods are increasingly out of reach for people with low wages and low income lives.

Toronto City has been addressing these problems for many years. Urban strategies, programs and services provide targeted assistance to individuals, families, and communities. We must keep doing useful things. However, this alone is insufficient. We must also try new strategies to ensure broadly sharing the benefits of growth and prosperity - so that everyone can live a dignified life

Education is an important aspect of our homeless understanding. Firstly, individuals with low educational standards are unemployed, and the risk of unemployment and poverty is high. In the housing investigation in Toronto, 34% of all Canadians found that 64% of homeowners did not complete high school, and people with a lower enrollment rate than school information might find employment opportunities It was found that it was high. Secondly, for many homeless teenagers and children, homeless could confuse their efforts to stay at school. Third, although this has changed, providing educational support to homeless people often leaves more direct demand behind the scenes such as evacuation centers and food.

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.