A new Statistics Canada report says that 12.5 percent of rookie’s scots lived below the poverty line in 2022, compared to a Canadian average of 9.9 percent.
The new report says that 12.5% of New York’s scotians lived below the poverty line in 2022
A new Statistics Canada report says that New Scotland had the highest poverty rate between the provinces in 2022, and Manitoba had the highest deep poverty.
The report published today says that 12.5 percent of the New York Scots lived below the poverty line in 2022, compared to a Canadian average of 9.9 percent.
British Columbia had the second highest poverty with 12.2 percent, followed by Manitoba, where 11.9 percent of residents lived in poverty and 6.9 percent lived in deep poverty.
The statistics agency says that someone lives in poverty if they cannot pay the cost of a basket of goods and services that represents a basic standard of living.
A person is in deep poverty if their income falls below 75 percent of that threshold.
One in five people who emigrated to Canada between 2017 and 2022 lived under the poverty, and more than half of those living in deep poverty.
