The Additional Costs of Disability: Why Canada's Poverty Measure Falls Short
Poverty is on the rise in Canada. For people with disabilities, life was unaffordable before the cost of living crisis. The additional costs of disability mean that over 28% of all people with disabilities live in poverty.
Now, many people are barely surviving.
In this blog post, we explore what the Market Basket Measure (MBM) is and why it plays an important role in measuring poverty in Canada. As this blog mentions, the MBM doesn't work for people with disabilities. We offer suggestions for measuring poverty more accurately for people with disabilities. Improvements will enable government to better design programs like the Canada Disability Benefit so people with disabilities receive more appropriate levels of support that they need.
We recently submitted a brief to Statistics Canada. Read more about this in our new blog.
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