Minorities and Canadians

cent: Total income was 26 per cent lower for visible minorities than non-visible minorities and 25 per cent lower for Indigenous Canadians than non-Indigenous Canadians, according to Toronto Star. But recent immigrants many of whom are also visible minorities face the toughest economic challenge with total incomes that fall 37 per cent below total incomes for Canadians born here, the data shows. The income gap for these groups barely budged between 2006 and 2016, narrowing by just two percentage points for Indigenous Canadians and recent immigrants and widening by one percentage point for visible minorities, according to census data released Wednesday. It means for every dollar in the pocket of someone born in Canada, a recent immigrant has just 63 cents. In Toronto, more than 55 per cent of visible minority residents were living on less than 30,000 in 2016 compared to fewer than 40 per cent of the rest of the city's population, according to census data provided to the Star. Article Continued Below More than 22 per cent of Canadians including 51.5 per cent of Torontonians reported being from a visible minority community in 2016, up from 16.3 per cent nationally in 2006. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.