Toronto Child and Family Poverty Report Card 2017

According to a new joint report, children in the Toronto area and their families have significant differences in ethnicity. According to the census data of 2016, ethnic family children - colored people - may live with twice the poverty of non-ethnic family children (25.3% versus 11.4%). The report also found that indigenous families with children also experienced an extremely high poverty rate of 84%.

Michael Polanyi, Community Development Manager at Toronto Children's Aid Association, says: "We need a comprehensive approach to definitely reduce our committee, positive changes, city councils must fund all their poverty reduction strategies by 2018."

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.

Inequality cities: hidden differences between children and youths in Toronto "Toronto Children's Assistance Association, Toronto Social Planning, Toronto Family Service, 2000 Campaign, Ontario Immigration and Poverty Collaboration

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.

Child's poverty report card, November 2016, First Call, BC Alliance for child and youth support reported that 1 child in 5 - 1 in 5 people. - Living in poverty To make matters worse, nearly half of the children living alone in their parent families - mostly single-parent families-live in poverty. Most importantly, the poverty rate of children has hardly changed in recent years, which indicates that the political commitment for problem solving is completely lacking. In 1989, the House of Representatives decided to eradicate child poverty by 2000. And it turned out to be a cruel fraud. The poverty rate of BC children rose from 15.5% in 1989 to 25.3% in 2000. Between 2004 and 2007, the poverty rate of children has dropped to about 20%, and it has since been. In essence, we have begun to accept that this level of child poverty is only part of ordinary life.