Canada’s official poverty measure only focuses on income and ignores other important factors, meaning there are millions of Canadians living in poverty that are ignored by the measure.
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Why the government’s main measure of poverty doesn’t tell us much about the lowest-income people.
Millions of Americans struggle to pay their bills each month, despite earning wages well above the federal poverty line and holding multiple jobs.
An estimated 540,000 Australians didn’t have paid work ahead of lockdown, so missed out on COVID-19 support this year. They’ve been left to live on $44 a day — well below the poverty line.
Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America’s poor, which is necessary to helping them.
Nigeria needs more industrial production, foreign and domestic investment, not just handouts.
The most stressed are Australians on JobSeeker and single parents.
With cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker set to bite, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston has cast doubt over the idea of a poverty line.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.
It’s evident from research that while health influences economic well-being, the inverse is also true, economic well-being influences health.
Canadians should invest in affordable housing. It’s a commitment to lifting the most vulnerable members of our society from the ground up — and lifting our entire country up in the process.
A new ANU computer algorithm can provide near instant answers about how to get the best bang for welfare dollars. It says we should boost Newstart and cut either pensions or family benefits.
The global poverty plot is thicker than what the World Bank would have us believe.
Less than 15% of the most disadvantaged people in Australia exit poverty from one year to the next. We need to design policy to tackle this.
We increasingly celebrate entrepreneurial self-reliance, but for disadvantaged people, the certainty of an adequate income is a fundamental foundation. It may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.
Depending on where you live, having a disability can cost thousands of additional dollars per year. Government programs often don’t account for that.
It could make women agents of change and development in Southeast Asia.
In work poverty is a sign the icy tide of capitalism is now lapping at our ankles in the global north.
Last week I joined 8,500 Australians on the charity challenge to live below the extreme poverty line, spending just $2 a day on food for five days. It was tough and my diet was far from complete.
Plans to stop universal credit payments in favour of a ‘national living wage’ will not address the long-standing poverty of many people in paid employment.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
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Professor, Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University
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Professorial Associate in the Centre for Public Policy, The University of Melbourne
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Ronald Henderson Research Fellow Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research & Brotherhood of St Laurence, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Research Associate, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Economics and inaugural Edmond D. Villani Chair of Economics, Georgetown University
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NRF Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research; Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, Lancaster University
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PhD candidate in Economics, UMass Amherst
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Dean, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Reader in Applied Social Research, King's College London
