Even Full-Time Workers Struggle to Afford Food in Canada: Study | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)

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A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests.

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s food insecurity research program analyzed Statistics Canada income data to better understand how Canadians’ jobs affect their access to food.

Their study, published last December in the journal Canadian Public Policy, found that the main earner in two-thirds of all households experiencing food insecurity held a permanent, full-time job.

Study co-author Tim Li said the findings suggest wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living.

“This really pushes back against any narrative that this is only about precarious work and this idea that if people just had a full-time, permanent job, then they would not be food insecure,” Li said. “We’re showing that that’s not the case.”

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[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

That profit level is actually so low that it’s almost losing money for investors once you account for inflation. Any lower and there wouldn’t be any investors

Good! Why are we allowing investors to leech a profit off of a basic necessity of life? No one should be milking extra profit out of the poor people trying to survive. A system that allows this deserves to collapse.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago

You're a fucking moron.

Should the government take over every farm, food processor, food manufacturer, and transportation company too? They're all profiting off a basic necessity of life.

Should the government take over all housing construction, development, renovation? That's also a necessity of life.

Countries have tried this before, it didn't end well.

Capitalism is working just fine for groceries right now, why throw that out when the real problem is the current land ownership and energy systems?