Poverty has a price tag for all Canadians.

Ø  Poverty has a significant cost for governments. The federal and Ontario government are losing at least $10.4 billion to $13.1 billion a year due to poverty.

Ø  Poverty has a cost for every household in Ontario. In real terms, poverty costs every household in the province from $2,299 to $2,895 every year.

Ø  Poverty has a very significant total economic cost in Ontario. The total cost of poverty in Ontario is equal to 5.5 to 6.6 per cent of Ontario’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Ø  The remedial costs of poverty related to health care and crime are substantial. In Ontario, poverty-induced costs related to health care have an annual public cost of $2.9 billion.

Ø  The annual cost of child or intergenerational poverty is very high. If child poverty were eliminated, the extra income tax revenues nationally would be between $3.1 billion and $3.8 billion.

Ø  Opportunity costs or lost productivity due to poverty has a great economic cost. Federal and provincial governments across Canada lose between $8.6 billion and $13 billion in income tax revenue to poverty every year.

Peel Region a destination for immigrants, but jobs lacking

Immigration has fuelled the rise of inequality in Peel Region, where one-third of newcomers live on a low income.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/04/08/peel_region_a_destination_for_immigrants_but_jobs_lacking.html

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

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The Cost of Poverty

http://www.oafb.ca/assets/pdfs/CostofPoverty.pdf

Simulation provides a close look at poverty

http://www.bramptonguardian.com/community-story/3070667-simulation-provides-a-close-look-at-poverty/

It’s More than Poverty

http://www.unitedwaytoronto.com/whatWeDo/reports/PEPSO.php

How poverty influences a child's brain development?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/brain/how-poverty-influences-a-childs-brain-development/article7882957/

The real cost of homelessness: Can we save money by doing the right thing?

http://www.homelesshub.ca/Library/View.aspx?id=55023

Poverty Reduction in Peel Region

http://pinterest.com/nataliya75/poverty-reduction-in-peel-region/

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Homelessness in Peel Region

Child Poverty in Canada

WENDY : From Poverty To Possibility

Portraits of Peel 2011

http://www.peelregion.ca/social- services/pdfs/Portaits-of-Peel-2011.pdf

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OUTCOME

1. To provide better access to all kinds of less-expensive higher education, so the earning gaps among new immigrants and all Canadians decreases significantly 

2. To establish employer mentorship incentive program to support internationally trained professionals.

3. To generate the policies and assess foreign credentials in fast-track procedures.

4. To provide the social security net and to invest more in child-care for low-income immigrant populations.

Strategies

1.  Starting a Blog to make awareness of the issue

2.  Starting a Twitter account to get public involved

3.   Pinterest Board

4.   Write a letter to Conservative MP for Mississauga, Honourable Brad Butt.

5.   Write a letter to Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Honorable   Jason Kenney

6.   Broadcast the available services/resources in the local TV channels like OMNI.2 TV

7.   To do education advocacy 

Why we want to change the situation?

ØPoverty has a complex mix of institutional and individual causes

ØPoverty results affects people’s health by; reducing life expectancy, increasing infant mortality, mental/physical health, and obesity

ØPoverty and remedial consequences; Increasing crime, cost of fighting the crime, poor performance at school, and High school dropout

ØPoverty has a price tag for all Canadians because; Significant cost for government, every household in Ontario, total economic cost in Ontario, cost of health care and crime rates

ØConclusion: Federal and Ontario governments must take an integrated view of poverty and its root causes; so they would not need to invest on the poverty-alleviating programs - such as social assistance, social housing and health care.

ØThe bottom line - we can’t afford poverty.

Peel Region is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. It includes the 3 municipalities: the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon.

From 2006 to 2011, the population of Peel increased by 11.8% to 1,296,814 people. Peel Region, 2011.

• More than 34,000 new residents move to Peel annually
• Brampton and Mississauga are among the top 10 municipalities in Canada that experienced the largest percentage population growth in recent immigrants between 2001 and 2006
• Peel’s rate of newborns is the highest in Ontario. In 2007, 16 340 babies were born.
• Peel’s senior population ( 65+ years of age) is increasing almost three times the rate of Ontario and Canada’s senior population. By 2018, Peel’s senior population will top 200,000
• By 2031 Peel’s population is predicted to reach 1.64 million.

Statistics for Peel Region ( 2011)

Non-immigrants                             625,390

Immigrants                                       650,530  

Immigrants from 2001 to 2011    221,045

Immigrants from 2001 to 2005    120,130

Immigrants from 2006 to 2011    100,910

               

Age at immigration

Under 5 years                   55,660   

5 to 14 years                      111,625 

15 to 24 years                   155,985 

25 to 44 years                   257,755 

45 years and over            69,500

Immigrant status and selected places of birth

Americas                          107,875

Europe                             141,265

Africa                                 36,190

Asia                                    363,660

Oceania and other          1,535

Growth brings challenges

• 171,030 Peel’s residents, about 15% of Peel’s population, reported a disability.
• Peel’s Children’s Aid receives one of the lowest levels of per-capita child welfare funding in the province, about one-third of the provincial average.
• Youth violence is on the rise in Peel.
• In 2009, peel regional Police responded to 13,319 domestic disturbances compared to 9,600 disturbances in 2005, an almost 40% increase.

Poverty is one of those challenges

• 33% of Peel’s recent immigrants live in poverty

References

Statistics Canada. 2013. Peel, RM, Ontario (Code 3521) (table). National Household Survey (NHS) Profile. 2011 National Household Survey. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 99-004-XWE. Ottawa. Released June 26, 2013.http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E
(accessed July 16, 2013).