U of C study finds welfare rates rise in Ontario and drop everywhere else
CALGARY – A University of Calgary study has found that the percentage of people using social assistance is lower than it was four decades ago in every province except Ontario.
Ron Kneebone of the School of Public Policy looked at data from all of the provinces between 1969 and 2012.
The percentage of those receiving assistance in Ontario in 2012 was 7.6 per cent, up from the four per cent it was in 1969.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s social assistance rate was nine per cent in 2012, half what it was in 1969 at 18 per cent.
Quebec has also seen its numbers fall to seven per cent two years ago from just under 10 per cent in 1969.
Alberta had the lowest welfare rate in 2012 at just 3.2 per cent, down from five per cent four decades ago.
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