Saskatchewan has one of the highest rates of children living in low-income families in Canada. Statistics Canada says the child low-income rate in Saskatchewan was 26.7 per cent in 2016; only Manitoba was higher at 29 per cent. The lowest rate among provinces was in Quebec at 16.3 per cent. That province also raked in over $10 billion dollars in equalization payments in the 2016-17 fiscal year. Saskatchewan’s rate was a 0.4 percentage point drop from the previous year. Over 60 per cent of children in lone-parent families were in low income in Saskatchewan.
Child low income fell in every census metropolitan area from 2015 to 16, excluding Saskatoon, Calgary and Edmonton. In our city the rate rose by 0.2 percentage points, to 21.4 per cent.
All persons in a census family are in low income if their family after-tax income is below half of the median after-tax income, adjusted for family size. In Saskatoon, that income fell in 2016 1.8 per cent from the year before to $57,550.
Saskatchewan Has One of the Highest Rates of Child Low Income
By Steve Chisholm
Jul 12, 2018 | 7:58 AM
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