Applying an intersectional lens to poverty in Ontario
The end of 2021 saw two big reports from the CCPA-Ontario office. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty put forward policy options to lift 500,000 Ontario children out of poverty. A Disproportionate Burden looked at the impacts of the pandemic on the job market for racialized and Indigenous workers, who were more likely to work in industries that lost jobs yet also more likely to work in occupations where the risk of exposure to COVID-19 was greater.