Comments on: One in three T.O. families lives in poverty: United Way report http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/11/26/1444/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:53:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Blue http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/11/26/1444/#comment-212992 Blue Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:35:42 +0000 http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/11/26/1444/#comment-212992 <p>Maybe, depending on how you define poverty, where groups cluster below and above the median, whether you use pre-tax or after-tax income, not counting re-distribution benefits or freebies like no-fee community centre memberships; and, discounting for conflict of interest when a social agency reports on its own constituency.</p> <p>The fact is Canadian poverty has been reduced from 15% to 11% as a result of economic development. Poverty is more a function of mental and physical disability than economics.</p> <p>There's enough spin on this report to make you dizzy.</p> Maybe, depending on how you define poverty, where groups cluster below and above the median, whether you use pre-tax or after-tax income, not counting re-distribution benefits or freebies like no-fee community centre memberships; and, discounting for conflict of interest when a social agency reports on its own constituency.

The fact is Canadian poverty has been reduced from 15% to 11% as a result of economic development. Poverty is more a function of mental and physical disability than economics.

There’s enough spin on this report to make you dizzy.

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