For low-income earners, it’s harder to crawl out of poverty than it was 20 years ago. Business in Vancouver. June 22, 2016.
“This means that poverty has become more ‘sticky’ over the past 20 years,” said Krishna Pendakur, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University. “Although the fraction of families that are poor hasn’t changed much, there isn’t as much churn in and out of poverty as there used to be.” Read article.