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5 things you should know about using a material deprivation index to measure poverty

June 28, 2024

Canada’s official poverty rate, as measured by the established market basket measure (MBM), is now almost 10 per cent of the population, which is slightly lower than the pre-pandemic rate in 2019. But is there less poverty today than in...
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