Chapter 10

Question 1

3 reasons for families experiencing financial setbacks

Answer 1

demographic events that influence the types of families and living arrangements in which Canadians share and pool income, economic events that influence the availability of jobs, political events that influence the types of payments Canadians can receive from the government

Question 2

Foot soldiers

Answer 2

frontline workers during the pandemic that were the most likely to be infected
44% of Ontario’s caseload were immigrants, refugees and newcomers

Question 3

Problem of studying poverty

Answer 3

past research has relied upon a multitude of different working definitions of poverty

Question 4

Low income cut offs

Answer 4

after tax income brackets

Question 5

Economic family

Answer 5

group of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling are related to each other by blood, marriage, common-law, adoption, or a foster relationship

Question 6

Likelihood of female headed lone parent families being classified as poor

Answer 6

four times more than that of all families

Question 7

Market Basket measure

Answer 7

detailed analysis of household consumption patterns, basic needs

Question 7

Guaranteed Income Supplement for Canadians

Answer 7

for Canadians 65 or older, raised the disposable income of lower income Canadians and reduced poverty rates

Question 8

Racialized poverty

Answer 8

visible minority population has twice as high of a low income rate; racialized individuals living in poverty tend to be younger, married, more educated, but also unemployed

Question 9

Wealth

Answer 9

difference between total assets and total debts

Question 10

How women maintain. low income households

Answer 10

informal network support from friends/famlies/absent fathers, side work in underground economies, agency based strategies from community groups

Question 11

Sense of control over one’s work and health

Answer 11

higher incomes are linked to improved health not just by the ability to purchase adequate food, housing, but also bc of the enhanced sense of control people have over their lives

Question 12

Low socioeconomic status children

Answer 12

more susceptible to early births and infant mortality, less cognitive achievements, poorer academic performance, psychosocial morbidity, range of emotional and behavioral problems

Question 13

Labour force participation rate

Answer 13

proportion of population age 15 and over that is in the labor force (EMPLOYED OR LOOKING FOR WORK) within a specific reference period

Question 14

Median income

Answer 14

point in which the income distribution at which one half of income units (individuals, families or households) fall above and one half fall below