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Poverty is “the situation of people whose lack of resources forces them to live below a publicly agreed minimum standard” - Poverty and Social Exclusion ^[1] Getting out of poverty means being able to make choices and being able to deal with the unexpected. ^[2]

How we define poverty "sets the standards by which we determine whether the incomes and living conditions of the poorest in society are acceptable or not and are key in determining issues of equity. From these definitions flow all actions aimed at helping the poorest." - Poverty and Social Exclusion ^[3]

Who do our systems leave most vulnerable to poverty? ^[4]

Disabled people	An estimated 15% of people with disabilities in so-called Canada live in poverty.
Racialized people	''''''' Indigenous peoples in so-called Canada experience the highest levels of poverty: 1 in 4 Indigenous Peoples, or 25%, are living in poverty. 4 in 10 or 40% of Indigenous children in so-called Canada live in poverty. These facts are almost entirely due to the impacts of settler colonialism. 1 in 5 racialized families live in poverty compared to 1 in 20 non-racialized families in so-called Canada.
Single mothers	21% of single mothers in so-called Canada are low income.

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[1] ttps://www.poverty.ac.uk/definitions-poverty

[2] ttps://iris-recherche.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Revenu-viable-2021-WEB.pdf

[3] ttps://www.poverty.ac.uk/definitions-poverty

[4] ttps://www.povertyinstitute.ca/poverty-canada

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-Adrienne Maree Brown  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
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-''"I tend to think of abolition as one result of transformative justice: abolition is the end of prisons; transformative justice is the methods people use to uproot injustice patterns in communities. I tend to think of abolition as a totality, and I think that can be tricky. People set out to abolish slavery and we ended up with the prison industrial complex because while there were surface and policy level shifts, the culture did not shift. That deep underlying racism and classism remains and is now roaring to the surface as we write this. So, while I identify as an abolitionist, I find speaking about the iterative tangible work of transformative justice makes more sense to me now–I don’t simply want the prisons gone, I want a radically different way of interacting with each other to grow."''
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-Mia Mingus  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
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-''"I understand abolition to be a necessary part of transformative justice because prisons, and the PIC, are major sites of individual and collective violence, abuse, and trauma. However, transformative justice is and must also be a critical part of abolition work because we will need to build alternatives to how we respond to harm, violence, and abuse. Just because we shut down prisons, does not mean that these will stop. Transformative justice has roots in abolition work and is an abolitionist framework, but goes beyond abolishing prisons (and slavery) and asks us to end–and transform the conditions that perpetuate–generational cycles of violence such as rape, sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, war, genocide, poverty, human trafficking, police brutality, murder, stalking, sexual harassment, all systems of oppression, dangerous societal norms, and trauma."''
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+*<p>Indigenous peoples in so-called Canada experience the highest levels of poverty: 1 in 4 Indigenous Peoples, or 25%, are living in poverty. 4 in 10 or 40% of Indigenous children in so-called Canada live in poverty. These facts are almost entirely due to the impacts of settler colonialism.</p>
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+*<p>1 in 5 racialized families live in poverty compared to 1 in 20 non-racialized families in so-called Canada.</p>
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Who do our systems leave most vulnerable to poverty? ^[4]