by I’ve written a blog post providing an overview of poverty measurement in Canada. Points raised in the post include the following: -One’s choice of poverty measure has a major impact on whether poverty is seen to be increasing or decreasing over time. -Canada’s federal government recently chose the make the Market Basket Measure (MBM) its official poverty measure. -According to the MBM, Canada has seen a major decrease in poverty over the past decade. -Also according to the MBM, there is very little seniors’ poverty in Canada. -The debate about poverty measurement in Canada has largely ignored the concept of asset poverty. The link to the blog post is here. Nick Falvo is a Calgary-based research consultant with a PhD in Public Policy. He has academic
Topics:
Nick Falvo considers the following as important: Alberta, Child Care, cities, Employment, food, Household debt, housing, Income distribution, income support, inequality, inflation, labour market, population aging, Poverty, public services, recession, Role of government, seniors, social indicators, social policy, Student debt, wealth
This could be interesting, too:
Nick Falvo writes Canada’s 2024 federal budget: What’s in it for rental housing and homelessness?
Angry Bear writes Do we need to change the way we grow things, or change the way we eat?
Nick Falvo writes Women’s homelessness
NewDealdemocrat writes Another strong personal income and spending report, but beware the uptick in inflation
I’ve written a blog post providing an overview of poverty measurement in Canada. Points raised in the post include the following:
-One’s choice of poverty measure has a major impact on whether poverty is seen to be increasing or decreasing over time.
-Canada’s federal government recently chose the make the Market Basket Measure (MBM) its official poverty measure.
-According to the MBM, Canada has seen a major decrease in poverty over the past decade.
-Also according to the MBM, there is very little seniors’ poverty in Canada.
-The debate about poverty measurement in Canada has largely ignored the concept of asset poverty.
The link to the blog post is here.
Nick Falvo is a Calgary-based research consultant with a PhD in Public Policy. He has academic affiliation at both Carleton University and Case Western Reserve University, and is Section Editor of the Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue canadienne de politique sociale. You can check out his website here: https://nickfalvo.ca/.