Poverty in Canada Not Connected to Race, New Study Says

Poverty in Canada Not Connected to Race, New Study Says
A homeless encampment in Toronto's Alexandra Park on March 20, 2021. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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Poverty in Canada is not connected to race, and government programs aimed at solving race-based poverty are failing, a new study shows.

The Aristotle Foundation’s study, Poverty and Race in Canada: Facts about Race, Discrimination, and the Poor, found that 64 percent of Canadians considered low-income are neither from a visible minority nor indigenous.