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    Fast jeder fünfte Kanadier, der Lebensmittelbanken nutzt, hat einen Job, da die Zahl der Besuche in einem Monat zum ersten Mal die Zwei-Millionen-Marke überschritten hat

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    1. blackmoose on

      >This year, more than two million Canadians visited food banks in just one month, **double the visits from a decade ago**, as food and shelter inflation has made millions more in the country food insecure.

      What happened a decade ago that could have caused this?

    2. FancyNewMe on

      In Brief:

      * This year, more than two million Canadians visited food banks in just one month, double the visits from a decade ago, as food and shelter inflation has made millions more in the country food insecure.
      * In March 2018, for the first time in 25 years, Canada surpassed one million food bank visits in one month, according to the report. Just six years later visits surpassed two million.
      * Food Banks Canada collects national food bank data in March each year. The month is chosen as a typical month for food bank visits, according to the report’s methodology.
      * The “one-two punch” of food and housing inflation is the primary cause of Canadians’ record food bank usage, acknowledged the report. As a result, the portion of employed people requiring food banks was the largest ever recorded.
      * Between 2018 and 2022, food insecurity across the Canadian population rose 42%.

    3. thatsnotwhatiagreed on

      For me, one of the most concerning things about this is that child poverty is also rising sharply: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/campaign-2000-national-report-card-child-poverty-1.7387176](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/campaign-2000-national-report-card-child-poverty-1.7387176)

      >Child poverty is rising swiftly in Canada and the **Liberal government’s Canada Child Benefit “has lost its power to sustain poverty reduction”** and bring down income inequality, says a new report from Campaign 2000.

      >The anti-poverty group’s annual report card on child and family poverty in Canada found that there are **now 1.4 million children living in poverty across the country, with another 360,000 children falling into poverty over the last two years**.

      Consider how this fits in with the government’s recent plan for a “GST Tax holiday” for 2 months and how that is almost certainly doing to do nothing to address the underlying problem.

    4. konathegreat on

      Starting to think that things are tough for an awful lot of Canadians.

      Contrary to how good we have it according to Trudeau, of course.

    8. Circusssssssssssssss on

      Capitalism continues

      Nothing in capitalism says that you have to be paid enough to rent or even eat. In fact the opposite. They can pay you whatever they want and it’s only government regulation (minimum wage) that stops some people from being paid pennies 

    9. SittyTqueezer on

      Do not worry. You can now order in food, get drunk, and buy toys and not pay gst for a couple months. Food bank demand should go right down.

    10. johnmaddog on

      While the government and the establishment is still pushing the best economy ever…. /s

    11. RentExtortedCanadian on

      I had to use the food bank 15 years ago, and about 10 years ago i got a good job and donated to the food bank to pay back. I did this regularly. But in 2021 when my life got very hard, no one wanted to hire full time, and i had to work multiple jobs, i had to scale back my donations. In 2022 i found out that the international students were making videos treating the food bank as ‘free food’ and i lost it, and stopped donating. I won’t donate again until they find a way to stop these cheaters and make it so only canadian citizens get help with the food bank. But nowadays i can’t even donate even if i wanted to because i’m barely surviving with the bs the government poured on us all. I’m of Indian descent, and i refuse to do the scammish bs these ‘newcomers’ are doing, they make me sick.

    12. WealthEconomy on

      I hope everyone takes this to heart this Christmas season. The food hampers to the food banks really help this time of year.

    14. Old-one1956 on

      Sad that the numbers have gone up, have also noticed a lot of Temporary Foreign Workers are using food banks as well as Foreign students, my friend volunteers at the food bank and about a third are foreigners makes one go hmmmmmm

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