Poverty costs Saskatchewan

In recent years, Saskatchewan has experienced some of the high- est inflation rates in the country.75,76 Figure 4 illustrates the stark rise in the costs of living in Saskatchewan based on the Market Basket Measure (MBM) which captures the costs of basic housing, food, clothing, transportation, and general amenities contained in the ‘other’ category.77 All geographical areas in the province have s [...] The Nathan Laurie approach: The costs of poverty in Saskatchewan referred to throughout this report are estimated based on an approach to measuring the cost of poverty developed by Nathan Laurie for the Ontario Association of Food Banks in 2008.95 Laurie’s original report estimates the cost of poverty for both the province of Ontario and for Canada as a whole. [...] This number appears in the leftmost column of Table 1, in the category of “Cost of social assistance.” Total share of health The burden of poverty on our health system is estimated by contrasting the cost usage of the 2nd of health services in a poor population to the cost of health services in a non-poor income quintile population. [...] Thus, the crime cost of poverty in Saskatchewan is the difference in the share remain in poverty of justice expenditure allocated to the first and second income quintiles. [...] According to the Market Basket Measure (MBM) low-income measure provided by Statistics Canada there were 26,000 mate the cost of children living in poverty in Saskatchewan in 2010.110, 111 As was done with the health missed opportuni- and crime costs associated with poverty above, the intergenerational cost of poverty is estimated by comparing the outcomes of a poor and a non-poor population: the