Poverty In Ontario Summary

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This article provides a background on the poverty circumstances in Ontario and states that not everyone in Ontario goes through it. The author of this article focuses on immigrants and Indigenous people because they are the people who are usually in poverty. The article goes on to discuss that radicalized workers earn less than workers that are not radicalized. Due to the unfair pay, radicalized worker’s families suffer in poverty. This author also touches on the idea of eliminating the poverty and unemployment for people that are radicalized because of the racial divide. This article raises the idea that poverty causes addiction, suicide, and violence. This article is useful because it states the reasons for poverty in Ontario. The article

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