\u00a0By Seth Forward \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Prince Rupert has the highest rate of urban child poverty in the province according to First Call, a B.C. youth advocacy group. First Call’s annual report worryingly indicated that 620 Prince Rupert children and 22.7 per cent of the youth population live in poverty in 2021, compared to the B.C. average of 14.3 per cent. The non-profit says it analyzes income tax filings from across the country in combination with data from Statistics Canada’s Census Family Low Income Measure to determine whether a family falls into the poverty threshold, which is set at 50 per cent or less of the median income across the country. For 2021, the poverty threshold was $34,503 for a lone parent with one child and $42,257 for a… <\/p>\n
\u00a0By Seth Forward \u00a0Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Prince Rupert has the highest rate of urban child poverty in the province according to First Call, a B.C. youth advocacy group. First Call’s annual report worryingly indicated that 620 Prince Rupert children and 22.7 per cent of the youth population live in poverty in 2021, compared to the B.C. average of 14.3 per cent. The non-profit says it analyzes income tax filings from across the country in combination with data from Statistics Canada’s Census Family Low Income Measure to determine whether a family falls into the poverty threshold, which is set at 50 per cent or less of the median income across the country. For 2021, the poverty threshold was $34,503 for a lone parent with one child and $42,257 for a... <\/p>\n