Rion Marks
Bio
I’m 18 and identify as an ftm trans man.
Most, if not all, of the things I post on here will be true, personal, and actually written as essays for a Social Justice and Equity class.
Stories (2/0)
The Poverty Trap
As of 2013, in Ontario there were a total of 460,100 people on Ontario Works. Of this, 64 percent were adults, with 27 percent being single adults. There were also 427,100 recipients of the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). Ontario may be one of the worst provinces for their social assistance and policies. Welfare creates an everlasting trap for all recipients, keeping their recipients below the poverty line, and trapping them there with their policies. Not only are rates far lower than in previous reports, but they are also much too low for this wage alone to support a family/person. Rates of adults using food banks has increased dramatically because of the inflation and increases in everyday costs. The poverty gap has increased by about 200 percenrt since 1993, leaving many recipients living on incomes 60 percent below the poverty line in Ontario.
By Rion Marks6 years ago in The Swamp