The Facts Amidst incredible wealth, more than 3.5 million Canadian live in poverty. In fact, poverty is increasing for youth, workers, young families and immigrants and people of colour in this country. Poverty in Aboriginal groups remains appallingly high, both on and off reserve. While Canada officially ranks an impressive 4th on the UN Human Development Index, the statistics measuring poverty in Canada's Aboriginal communities would place us 78th—a ranking currently held by Peru. The inherited poverty facing our youth is especially emergent.
Still among that average, more subgroups tend to be poorer, such as children and women (statcan.gc.ca). The Canadian Women’s Foundation on its website, provides rates of poverty among Canadian women as follows: Aboriginal women (36%), visible minority women (35%), women with disabilities (26%), single parents mothers (21%), and single senior women (14%) (canadianwomen.org) such facts raise some questions: why Canadian women so poor? Does women poverty in Canada have anything to do with power relationship? Does Canada have stable measure for poverty? Does Canadian government have strong social programs to tackle women poverty in Canada?
Poverty is being discussed as something that most families fall into at some point of their life time, and how poverty is very different in some states oppose to other states. More importantly, this article focuses on the intellectual disabilities that push people into poverty faster than people who are not suffering from disabilities. People with intellectual disabilities better know as “mental retardation” fall into poverty more often because of the expenses of taking the child to the doctor, and the higher chance that the child
While 58% of families below the UK poverty line contained at least one working parent, benefits available still do not bring them above the 60% median household income. [4,7] Along with income inequality other inequalities such as: ethnicity, housing and the neighborhood in which the child lives; all contribute to poverty. People from ethnic minority groups in Britain are significantly more likely to be living in poverty. Around a third of all children are living in poverty; but disadvantage is deeper among children in ethnic minority groups as a whole. Homelessness; poor accommodation such as overcrowding, poor state of repair blights childhood.
After 1750 women in a typical village bore an average of 4 children in one lifetime. Because of the reduction in childcare necessities, women gained time to pursue other duties. Farm women made extra yarn, cloth, and cheese to contribute to the financial affairs of the family unit. As a result, the living standards of a family were increased. However, women’s lives remained tightly bound by a web of legal and cultural restrictions.
There are a number of causes to child poverty in the UK. Lone parent households are one of the major issues. There are currently two million lone parents with dependent children in the UK in 2012. (Office for national statics, 2012). Lone parents are struggling to make ends meet; as a result, their children are paying the ultimate price.
Poverty and Children in the United States United States has always been looked at as the richest country in the world. Other countries have taken us as their example in economics. Unfortunately poverty in recent years especially among children has reached its highest. Many children face poverty because of the economic downfall and their parent’s helplessness from lack of jobs and education. Recent studies have shown that 36% of all people in poverty are children.
Without a place to live, those other needs become secondary and problems become exacerbated, as the need for temporary shelter and to protect one’s self throughout the night become priorities. Perhaps a step in the right direction would be an increase in the availability of housing, particularly the affordable type. The vacancy rate in Canada is nearly zero and home prices are as high as they have ever been. The small number of low-income or social housing units that actually exist in Canada, where tenants pay a rent equal to 30 per cent of their wages, are all full and have been for a while. When individuals arrive during the warms months and are unable to afford or even find a place to live, they often have temporary options, camping, couch surfing, sleeping outside.
According to the study, 36 percent of black women were overweight or obese, compared with about 10 percent of Hispanic and Asian women in the city. More than 7 percent of black women suffered from diabetes, compared with 2 percent of Hispanic women and 3 percent of Asian women. Fewer than 1 percent of white women suffered from diabetes, and 7 percent were overweight or obese. "Black women in the District are really struggling," said Cara James, a senior policy analyst at Kaiser and the study's lead author. "This is a chronic condition that we know is related to poverty and the availability of nutritious food and the opportunity to exercise."
According to the Canadian government itself, “the total amount of water in the world is estimated at over a billion cubic kilometres, while its forms may change from oceans to clouds, to precipitation, to rivers, to ice fields, and so on, the total quantity of water has remained constant for the past three to five million years.” http://www.ec.gc.ca/Water/en/info/pubs/NSKit/e_chap2.htm, July 13th, 2009 Canadians have enough water to share, exceptionally compared to populous alternative countries. Alternative countries that need water and can put it to better use than Canadians can, as we use gallons on water each year in recreational swimming pools, water parks, and washing our cars. No, Canada should not feel compelled, this is a nation that has always tried to help others and this favourable circumstance to share our water would benefit Canada. Canada has the potential to bring in billions of dollars of revenue from simply selling our clean water. The economic convenience of selling our water is ceaseless.