Macdonald Wilson and Manitoba

non-Indigenous: Comparatively only a small minority, 13 per cent, of children labeled "non-Indigenous, non-racialized and non-immigrant" live in poverty, a rate similar to the OECD average, said Macdonald and Wilson, according to CBC. The worst poverty rates facing children were those who live in Manitoba, found Macdonald and Wilson. The situation for children off reserve is not much better; 51 per cent live in poverty. In Manitoba, 76 per cent of First Nations kids on reserves live in poverty, a level the report authors called "obscene." "Something has to be urgently done. Poverty is a root cause of many issues facing Indigenous communities in the province — including the high number of children in care and suicide, she said.. "This poverty leads to so many other tragedies and traumas," said Morgan. "You know there a direct feed into child welfare." While Morgan said money isn't enough to eradicate child poverty she is calling the federal government to increase funding to reserves. "They are chronically underfunded. That an enormous amount of suffering for children," said Morgan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.