Chapter 10 - Poverty

Question 1

Poverty

Answer 1

Lacking resources for an “adequate” standard of living

Question 2

Absolute Povety

Answer 2

The chronic absence of the basic necessities of life. Including food, clean water, and housing

Question 3

Relative Poverty

Answer 3

A deficiency in material and economic resources compared with some other population

Question 4

HPI

Answer 4

A composite measure of poverty based on three measures of deprivation:

1. Deprivation to life
2. Deprivation of knowledge
3. Deprivation of living standards

Question 5

LICOs

Answer 5

Stats Canada measure of poverty, people who spend more than 54.7% of their pre-tax income on their basic needs: food, clothing, and shelter

Question 6

Market Basket Measure

Answer 6

An assessment of the minimum level of income required to provide for the basic needs that a given society would find it “indecent” to be without

Question 7

Low-income Measure

Answer 7

Family’s needs increase by 40% with each added adult, and 30% with each added child

Question 8

Wealthfare

Answer 8

Governmental policies and regulations that economically favour the wealthy

Question 9

Corporate Welfare

Answer 9

Laws and policies that favour corporations, such as low-interest government loans to failing businesses and special subsidies and tax breaks to corporations

Question 10

Culture of Poverty

Answer 10

The set of norms, values and beliefs and self-concept that contribute to the persistence of poverty among the underclass

Question 11

Underclass

Answer 11

A persistently poor and socially disadvantaged group that disproportionately experiences joblessness, welfare dependency, involvement in criminal activity, dysfunctional families, and low educational attainment

Question 12

Gender-based Analysis

Answer 12

Feminist policy analysis that understands gender to be a key factor in vulnerability to poverty and the differential effects of poverty; it uses gender as a central grounding point for analysis

Question 13

Narrative analysis

Answer 13

A feminist practice that combines a symbolic approach with the collection of women’s life histories as legitimate sources of knowledge and information

Question 14

Wealth

Answer 14

The total assets of an individual or household minus liabilities

Question 15

Feminization of Poverty

Answer 15

The disproportionate distribution of poverty among women

Question 16

Intergenerational Poverty

Answer 16

Poverty that is transmitted from one generation to the next

Question 17

Family Allowance

Answer 17

Canadian program in 1945 which gave a monthly allowance to families with children

Question 18

Demogrant

Answer 18

A benefit directed at a particular group within the population

Question 19

Canada Child Tax Benefit

Answer 19

A tax-free monthly payment made to eligible families to help them with the cost of raising children under the age of 18

Question 20

National Child Benefit Supplement

Answer 20

A monthly benefit for low-income families with children that is the federal government’s contribution to the NCB

Question 21

National Child Benefit

Answer 21

July 1998 NCB is a joint initiative of federal, provincial, and territorial government designed to help prevent and reduce the depth of child poverty and to promote attachment to the workforce

Question 22

Family Supplement

Answer 22

Those families with children in a low-income situation and who receive the CCTB automatically receive the FS based on their family net income

Question 23

Dominion Provincial Student Aid Program

Answer 23

Act passed by federal government in 1939 that contributed to each participating province and the province was expected to provide an equal amount of assistance to students

Question 24

Pay Equity

Answer 24

“equal pay for equal work”

- Between men and women

Question 25

Human Capital

Answer 25

• The skills, knowledge, and capabilities of an individual