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Measure-up : Report on the February 3, 2010 Community Workshop on Poverty Measurement

20 Dec 2013

Instead, Family Services Minister Gord Mackintosh and Housing and Community Development Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross appeared to cut child poverty in half simply by using a different measurement of poverty, known as the Market Basket Measure (MBM).3 The Board and staff of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg planned the Measure Up! workshop to help the community understand the complexities of pove [...] To realize this core goal, the committee also recommended: x The coordination of a nationwide federal-provincial initiative on early childhood education; x The development of a national housing and homelessness strategy; x The creation of a basic income floor for all Canadians who are severely disabled; and x Increases to the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) over time to raise recipients’ inc [...] Market Basket Measure (MBM) This cut-off is based on the cost of a basket of goods and services sufficient for a standard of living between the poles of subsistence and social inclusion. [...] Changing standard of living Poverty measurements should reflect changes in the overall standard of living, so that the definition of poverty is relative to the rest of contemporary society. [...] Political control of poverty measurements The adjustment process for the MBM demonstrates that poverty measurements are sometimes subject to the whims of politicians.
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ISBN
9781895752687
Pages
31
Published in
Canada

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