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Non-Status Indian Children

non-status Indian children: The study by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives being released Wednesday also paints a grim picture of Metis, Inuit, and non-status Indian children, as well as of children of immigrants and visible minorities. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. For other indigenous children Metis, Inuit, and non-status Indian children the rate is about 27 per cent. TORONTO - Half of Canada's First Nations children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics that pegs the cost of easing the problem at $580-million a year. The analysis of census data from 2006 the latest year relevant statistics are available finds one-third of immigrant children and almost one-quarter of visible minority kids live below the low income line. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.