Despite low-earning Canadians’ disposable income rising in the last decade, food bank usage has reached record numbers; though counterintuitive, there might be a measurable explanation for this.
According to data from the food professor’s, or Sylvain Charlebois’, agri-food lab at Dalhousie University, the lowest-earning 20% of households’ disposable income has actually increased by 43% in the last decade.
