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Title   Welfare Incomes 1999
Date   Fall 2000
No.   Report No. 112

Estimates of the incomes of welfare recipients in each province and territory for four family types: a single employable person, a single person with a disability, a single parent with one child, and a two-parent family with two children. Also included are comparisons with the poverty lines and average incomes, and data on welfare incomes as far back as 1986.

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