Transcription of POVERTY PROFILE: SPECIAL EDITION
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In two of Canada s largest cities, more than half of all persons living in POVERTY were from racialized groups: 58% in Vancouver; and 62% in do we mean by the term racialized persons?We use this term to mean persons, other than Aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour. In this bulletin, the term racialized persons refers to those people who self-described as a visible minority on the 2006 Census. For more information about terminology, refer to the Methodology section at the end of the OUTCOMESP overty in racialized communities is a growing problem. For example, in Toronto, the number of racialized families living in POVERTY increased 362% between 1980 and 2000, far greater than their population growth of 219%.
the past two decades poverty rates have been rising among immigrants and falling among the ... Forty-four percent of racialized persons aged 25 to 64 years hold a university certificate, ... The population of racialized persons living in poverty is young. …
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