Poverty in Saskatchewan – 2016. Using Official Poverty Line.

New update – a summary of poverty in Saskatchewan using the recently announced federal Official Poverty Line.   In 2016 there were 98,000 persons in poverty in the province for a poverty rate of 9.2 per cent.  Groups with high rates of poverty include children in female lone-parent families, adults aged 18-64 not living in families, Indigenous persons, recent immigrants, and disabled persons.  See the full report here skp2016 or at uregina.ca/~gingrich/skp2016.pdf