Big decline in poverty rate offers good news to a government that desperately needs some

In total, about 622,000 children lived below the poverty line in 2017, down about 18 per cent from 2016

The number of Canadians in poverty is declining rapidly thanks to a strong labour market and an increase in child benefits, a new report from Statistics Canada says — a bit of good news for a Liberal government increasingly mired in controversy.

Sun/Postmedia Network The report organizes incomes into “deciles,” or blocks of 10 equal-sized groups, and the distribution between those groups makes up the income inequality numbers. Anyone making $19,100 in after-tax incomes was in the lowest 10 per cent of incomes in 2017.The top 10 per cent of incomes accounted for about 23 per cent of total after-tax income in Canada in 2017, while the bottom 40 per cent accounted for about 20 per cent.

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