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REFERENCES
1: The People for Education. The Measure of Success: What Really Counts. Toronto: The People for Education, 2011. Print.
2,3: Ciuffetelli Parker, Darlene, and Joseph Flessa. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario. Poverty and Schools in Ontario: How Seven Elementary Schools are Working to Improve Education. Toronto: Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, 2011. Print.
4,6,10: Ontario. Children and Youth Services. Breaking the Cycle: Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy 2011 Annual Report. Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario, 2011. Print.
5 Ontario. Children's Aid Society of Toronto. Greater Trouble in Greater Toronto: Child Poverty in the GTA. Toronto: Children's Aid Society of Toronto, 2008. Print.
6, 7: Goodman, Matthew. Hamilton Community Foundation. Poverty Reduction Background Paper: Income Integration of Schools. Hamilton: Hamilton Community Foundation, 2010. Print.
8: Ferguson, HB et al. "The impact of poverty on educational outcomes for children." Paediatrics Child Health. 12.8 (2007): n. page. Web.
10: Ferguson, HB et al. "The impact of poverty on educatonal outcomes for children." Paediatrics Child Health. 12.8 (2007): n. page. Web.
• One in six Ontario children live in poverty.1
• The rate of poverty is 50% higher for aboriginal children, children of colour, and children of female single-parents.2
• 47% of new immigrant children live in poverty.3
*Chen is a statistical representation of the poorest kids living in Ontario.
Chen is 9.He immigrated with his mother from China.
His father isn’t in his life. They live in public housing.
• In low-income neighbourhoods, as many as 68% of kids come to school without eating.4
• In families that use food banks, 77% of their income goes to rent.5
• Students in schools with a Student Nutrition Program perform 9-16% higher in EQAO tests in reading, writing and math.6
Chen’s mother works nights in a factory.
She’s asleep on school mornings. Chen has to get breakfast for himself, but often he can’t find anything to eat.
Chen would benefitfrom a breakfastprogram and ESL training at his school.
Access to resources can affect his ability to succeed in school.• Child poverty accounts for 21% of the risk of poor
school performance.7
• Students in families that earn less than $30,000 a year score 20-30% lower on grade 3 EQAO math and literacy tests than kids in families that earn more than $100,000 a year. The gap widens in grade 6.8
• 50% of Ontario students who drop out of high school live in families earning less than $30,000 a year.9
• Ontario plans to triple Parenting and Family Literacy Centres to 300 across the province.10
POVERTY & EDUCATIONA DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD LIVING IN POVERTY IN ONTARIO
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POVERTY IN CANADA
POVERTY”“The chances of being
impoverished... are not set by a lottery-like mechanism, in which everyone’s number has the same odds of coming up.-Ontario Association of Food Banks, “The Cost of Poverty”
BritishColumbia
Alberta
Manitoba/Saskatchewan
Ontario
Quebec
Atlantic
Poverty affects3 Million
Canadians1
Had to sleep in the street or a shelter
10%7%5%6%5%9%
26%12%17%22%24%24%
Received help from a food bank or charity
are children2
PERCENTAGE OF CANADIANS:5
1 in 5
loneparents seniorsunattached
non-elderlychildren AboriginalCanadians
recentimmigrants
people withdisabilities
These Canadians are more likely than others to live in poverty:4
51%
11%
37%
Survey: What's the cause of poverty in Canada?8
“Circumstances beyond the control of the poor.”
Respondent unsure
“People aren’t doing enough to help themselves”
4.7% Iceland5.3% Finland6.1% Netherlands6.1% Norway6.5% Denmark7.3% Sweden7.3% Austria8.1% Switzerland8.4% Ireland8.5% Germany8.8% France10.2% Belgium10.9% Australia11% AVERAGE7
12.1% United Kingdom12.3% Luxembourg13.3% CANADA14.9% Japan15.9% Italy17.1% Spain23.1% USA
Children inPoverty:
Wheredoes
Canadastand?6
5: The Salvation Army. “Canada Speaks: Exposing Persistent Myths About the 150,000 Canadians Living on the Streets.” May 2011. 6: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, “Innocenti Report Card 10: Measuring Child Poverty: New league tables of child poverty in the world’s rich countries.” 2012.
7: Ibid. Average based on 35 industrialized countries.
8: Angus Reid. “Canada and United States Concerned Over Poverty: North American Poll: Canada & U.S.” 2007.
REFERENCES
1, 2: United Nations Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food: Visit to Canada from 6 to 16 May 2012.” May 2012.
3: Ontario Association of Food Banks. “The Cost of Poverty: An Analysis of the Economic Cost of Poverty in Ontario.” November 2008.
4: Murphy, Brian, Xuelin Zhang and Claude Dionne. “Low Income in Canada: a Multi-line and Multi-index Perspective.” Statistics Canada: Income Statistics Division. March 2012.