Why employment is no longer a sure-fire way out of poverty

A brand new examine commissioned by Community Food Centres Canada is highlighting a “crisis” for single, working-age Canadians, with one in 5 residing in poverty.

Nick Soul, the CEO of Community Food Centres Canada, instructed CTV News Channel on Friday that these adults are “arriving in droves” at neighborhood meals centres throughout the nation with “all of them united… around a lack of income to meet basic needs.”

The survey is pushing again in opposition to established notions that employment is a pathway out of poverty and the numbers are stark.

“Thirty-eight per cent of food insecure households are single working age adults. They make up 90 per cent of the people in the shelter system,” Saul says. “Of the 1.8 million people who are in deep poverty, half of them are single working-age adults.”

It’s an issue that is gotten worse over the past decade and Soul warns that more and more precarious employment is a driving think about individuals being unable “to get ahead” regardless of working fulltime hours in addition to authorities earnings helps that “just haven’t kept pace with the realities” of residing in Canada in 2023.

Click the video on the prime of this text for the full interview and the options being proposed by the group.

With information from CTV Vancouver’s Regan Hasegawa