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Canadians are paying a very high cost for the preventable consequences of poverty when they could potentially save billions. The Dollars and Sense of Solving Poverty draws on a wide range of local, national and international research from economics to epidemiology to illustrate how reducing poverty benefits everyone, no matter where we sit on the income ladder.
Did you know that in two of Canada's largest cities, more than half of all persons living in poverty are from racialized groups? Learn more in this special edition of Poverty Profile.
Move your cursor over each province or territory to view welfare incomes by household type for 2011. Click on the province or territory to see a chart of welfare incomes over time.