Census Data: Minority Residents and Settlement Organization

census data: The latest census data shows more than 55 per cent of visible minority residents in Toronto are living on less than 30,000 a year, she adds, according to CBC. When they do get work, it's minimum wage, it's precarious, it's shift work, she says. Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants over next 3 years The rate of unemployment for racialized immigrant women is very, very high, says Catherine McNeely, the executive director of Newcomer Women's Services, a non-profit settlement organization. We serve a huge number of women who live just north of the Danforth, where ... 57 per cent of the households have incomes under 40,000. As executive director of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, she stresses how most immigrants are highly educated, yet an economic divide persists. Margaret Eaton agrees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.