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In our earlier blog, Beyond Poverty: What Growing Income Inequality Means for Halton[1], we look at income inequality separately from poverty. The key message was simple: poverty and inequality are related, but they tell us different things. Poverty asks, “Who does not have enough?” Inequality asks, “How unevenly is income distributed?”. What happens when we put the two measures together? Using Statistics Canada’s 2023 T1 Family File (T1FF) taxfiler data, we can look at both the Census Family...

Reflections of a UWHH Fundraising Participant What is Sleepless for Our Community? On Friday February 20 I took part in a fundraiser by United Way of Halton & Hamilton called Sleepless for our Community. Each year, volunteers nation-wide sleep in their vehicle for an evening to both raise money for United Way programming and to raise awareness of homelessness (especially hidden homelessness) in our communities. Proceeds from the event support United Way programming related to housing and...

Story by Richard Lau, Senior Social Planner with CDH Understanding population change at the municipal level requires a different approach than the one typically used for province or the country. For this analysis, we draw on Statistics Canada’s newest community-level population projections [1] , [2] , produced for Census Subdivision (CSD) such as Burlington, Oakville, Milton and Halton Hills in Halton Region. This is the first time Statistics Canada has released official, nationally...