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Title   Income for Living?
Date   Spring 2004
No.   Report No. 120

Income for Living? is the first report in which the Council looked at the new Market Basket Measure (MBM) poverty line. It compares four different income types: welfare, minimum wage, low wage, and average wage. The research showed that some Canadians working full-time lived in poverty and could not afford average housing and child care costs.

Press Release: Full-time Workers Still in Poverty Press Release
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