Mother of 2 living in downtown Toronto on rising inflation: ‘I’m struggling a lot’
Anila Lee Yuen, the president and CEO of the Centre for Newcomers, said inflation “magnifies the vulnerability” of newcomers to Canada, or those re-entering the country after years away.
“What we’re seeing across the board, not only with newcomer populations or even racialized communities, but across the board people that do not have living wages.… If you’re not making a minimum of $22 an hour, full-time work, you’re not going to be able to take care of yourself,” she explained.Lee Yuen said in order to have a “semblance of a dignified life and living environment,” as all humans deserve, a real living wage is necessary.
In 2021, Hetherington said there was a “doubling” of the number of people who had full-time employment but were accessing food banks year over year. According to Hetherington, in 2022, more than 100,000 people in Toronto accessed a food bank for the first time. Hetherington said that while food bank numbers are not the only metric useful in determining how many people are food insecure, or who are struggling to make ends meet, they are a “great measure” to determine what is happening in society in real time.
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