Poverty is one of the main social worries in Canada. According to Graham and Delaney (2000), poverty is a state of absence of wealth or the means of subsistence. Poverty can affect the alternate group including children, Aboriginal people, seniors, disable individuals, single parents, and more. In this paper, I describe the poverty as one of the social issues and propose the national policy, information, reasons, and the general population affected by the poverty.
There are various reasons for poverty, for instance, inadequate wages, unemployment, lack of food, security, housing, and clothes. Coulter (2012) describes that the underemployment is the reason for poverty when laborers cannot explore the full-time wage work. Second, the poverty-wage where workers can achieve full-time work, however, their base wages do not raise them to the poverty level (Coulter, 2012). Likewise, the unemployment protection, disability benefits and old age security lead to poverty (Coulter, 2012).
In Canada, there is no such exact definition of poverty. Statistics of Canada describe the definition of poverty by low-income line families. Graham and Delaney (2009) with the Statistics of Canada define the poverty through low-income cut-offs (LICOs), the pay which families spend a large portion of the
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Globe and Mail (2014) represent that for older adults, the “low-salary was 6.2% of the individuals who lived in families and 28.5% among those living alone.” Jimenez et al. (2015:279) shows that the “senior household income was $3500 and the wealthiest had $328,432 shows that the wealth gap is the reason to increase the poverty in 2000.” According to Jimenez et al. (2015:279), the “poverty rate for age 65 and older was 8.7% and without social security, the rate would rise to 46.8% in