About Poverty
WINDSOR-ESSEX COUNTY
38,000: Total number of people living in poverty (2006) (i)
16,000: Number of children and youth living in poverty (2006) (ii)
Almost 1 in 5: Number of tenants who are spending more than 50% of their income on rent (2006) (iii)
ONTARIO
148,740: Number of meals food banks serve to children in a month (March 2010) (iv)
3.1%: Percentage of Ontarians helped by food banks in 2010 (v)
$2.9 Billion: What Ontario spends each year to treat the symptoms of poverty through the health care system (vi)
Almost 1 in every 9 children and youth live in poverty (after tax LICO) (vii)
CANADA
1 in 7: Number of Canadians expected to be living in poverty (2010) (viii)
1.5 Million: Number of Canadians who cannot afford suitable and adequate shelter (ix)
$38 Billion: Estimated annual economic cost of poverty (x)
Sources:
i. Statistics Canada. 2007. Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Ontario (Code3568) (table). 2006 Community Profiles. 2006 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 92-591-XWE. Ottawa. Released March 13, 2007.
ii. Author Dr. Lynn Perreault and co-author Dr. Linda Morrow, Windsor-Essex County 2009 Well-Being Report, United Way / Centraide Windsor-Essex County (2009), p. 42
iii. Socio-economic Series, 10-017, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Research Highlight (October 2010), p. 12
iv. Judith Maxwell, Running on Empty: A Decade of Hunger in Ontario, Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) (March 2010), p. 1
v. Shawn Pegg and Cherry Marshall, HungerCount 2010, Food Banks Canada (2010). Toronto: Food Banks Canada, p. 28
vi. Nathan Laurie, The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Association of Food Banks. (November 2008), p. 4
vii. Statistics Canada. Table 202-0802 – Persons in low income families, annual, CANSIM
viii. Armine Yalnizyan, The Problem of Poverty Post-Recession, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, (August 2010), p. 3
ix. Canadian Housing and Renewal Association, An Affordable Housing Policy for Canada, (November 2009), p. 2
x. Nathan Laurie, The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Association of Food Banks. (November 2008), p. 6