Poverty in Saskatchewan - 2016. Using Official Poverty Line
Date
2018-09-20
Authors
Gingrich, Paul
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University of Regina Library
Abstract
Poverty continues in Saskatchewan. In 2016, 98,000 of the 1.1 million people who lived in Saskatchewan were poor. While provincial poverty rates have declined over the last fifteen years, the income of many children, adults, and seniors living in the province is not enough to feed, clothe, and house them.
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This report summarizes Saskatchewan poverty trends and patterns from 2002 to 2016 using the Official Poverty Line, formerly the MBM or Market Basket Measure…