320,000 use food banks: Ontario study
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320 هزار اهالی استان انتاریو روزانه به بانک غذا برای دریافت کمکهای مردمی مراجعه می کنند . بسیاری از خانواده ها دیگر قادر به یافتن خانه مناسب نیستندو نمی توانند کارهای با
ثبات و درامد خوب پیدا کنند. بر اساس این گزارش از هر سه نفر یک نفر مهاجر هست که به بانک مراحعه می کنند.
تعداد افرادی که گرسنه به مدرسه و سر کار می روند تکان دهنده است
November 07, 2007
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Nearly one-third of people turning to Ontario's food banks for their daily meals are new Canadians who are unable to find affordable housing and steady, well-paying jobs despite the province's low employment rate, says a study conducted by the province's food bank association.
The Ontario Hunger Report, to be released tomorrow and obtained by The Canadian Press, found almost 320,000 Ontario residents depend on food banks every month – the highest number of people served in the country and an increase of 14 per cent since 2001.
Almost one in three of those food bank users are immigrants, the study found.
A lack of steady employment, reasonably-priced housing and realistic social assistance payments mean children and the province's disabled continue to rely on food bank donations as well, said the Ontario Association of Food Banks study.
Although food bank usage is highest in Toronto, the study shows hunger is becoming more prevalent in Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor and Sudbury.
"A lot of people are going to work hungry, they're going to school hungry," said Adam Spence, the association's executive director.
"It's shocking, the level of hunger that exists."
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what a great country while according to new study rich pay less taxes in Canada
Rich taxed less, study finds
TORY ZIMMERMAN/TORONTO STAR
Nov 07, 2007 05:10 PM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – The era of tax cuts ushered in by federal and provincial governments in recent years have made Canada's tax system so regressive that the country's richest now pay the lowest rates of all income groups, says a report to be released Thursday.
The report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an advocacy research group that has pressed in the past for more social spending and bigger taxes on corporations and higher-income Canadians, looked at what percentage of income Canadians pay in taxes to all levels of government.
The study shows that Canada's progressive tax system has become less so between 1990 and 2005, and for the richest Canadian families – those with annual earnings of $266,000 a year and more – the era of tax cuts since the turn of the century has been like manna from government.
Those very rich Canadians paid 30.5 per cent of their income in federal, provincial and municipal taxes in 2005, as opposed to the 30.7 per cent for those with incomes under $13,523, the lowest 10 per cent of family earnings.
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