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This is one of 30 ideas included in a 48-page strategy the organization released Tuesday that aims to address the region\u2019s \u201csocioeconomic inequities.\u201d \u201cThis strategy is a roadmap, but it is also an invitation \u2013 an invitation to invest in our vision and to co-create a future in which no Inuit are left behind,\u201d ITK president Natan Obed said. Inuit have lower life expectancy, employment rate and median individual income than other Canadians, and \u201ca basket of groceries can cost two or three times more in Inuit Nunangat than in southern Canada,\u201d the report said. 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This is one of 30 ideas included in a 48-page strategy the organization released Tuesday that aims to address the region\u2019s \u201csocioeconomic inequities.\u201d \u201cThis strategy is a roadmap, but it is also an invitation \u2013 an invitation to invest in our vision and to co-create a future in which no Inuit are left behind,\u201d ITK president Natan Obed said. Inuit have lower life expectancy, employment rate and median individual income than other Canadians, and \u201ca basket of groceries can cost two or three times more in Inuit Nunangat than in southern Canada,\u201d the report said. 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