Dear colleagues, Yesterday Statistics Canada released new data from the 2021 Canadian Income Survey. Since the survey's questions about food insecurity (and many other indicators) are asked in the first half of the following year that the income data is based on (2021), the release provides a look at food insecurity status captured in the first half of 2022. PROOF has summarized some of the key statistics from the release in a series of graphs at: https://proof.utoronto.ca/2023/new-data-on-household-food-insecurity-in-2022/ In 2022, 6.9 million people in the ten provinces, including almost 1.8 million children, lived in a food-insecure household. This is a considerable increase from 2021, during a period of unprecedented inflation and limited policy action to mitigate the burden it put on food-insecure households. The high prevalence of household food insecurity across Canada highlights the need for more effective, evidence-based policy responses by federal and provincial governments. PROOF will be putting together a more in-depth analysis of this data later this year. Best, Tim -- Tim Li, MSCom PROOF Research Program Coordinator Department of Nutritional Sciences Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 1A8 https://proof.utoronto.ca/ @proofcanada<https://twitter.com/proofcanada> ________________________________ From: PROOF (Food Insecurity Policy Research) <[log in to unmask]> Sent: May 3, 2023 12:11 PM To: PROOF Food Insecurity Policy Research <[log in to unmask]> Subject: 🚨 New data shows that food insecurity in the ten provinces has worsened in 2022 In 2022, 6.9 million people in the ten provinces, including 1.8 million children, lived in a food-insecure household. View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/dd6813d1f5f7/new-data-shows-that-food-insecurity-in-the-ten-provinces-has-worsened-in-2022?e=95568a7c75> [Logo: PROOF, Food Insecurity Policy Research] <https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=0f243578a3&e=95568a7c75> New data shows that food insecurity in the ten provinces has worsened in 2022. In 2022, 6.9 million people in the ten provinces, including 1.8 million children, lived in a food-insecure household. This is a considerable increase from 2021 during a period of unprecedented inflation. The new data release from Statistics Canada’s 2021 Canadian Income Survey (CIS) provides the latest update on food insecurity in 2022. While the CIS 2021 provides information on income and poverty using from 2021 tax files, hence its name, questions about food insecurity and other indicators are asked in the following year, from January to June 2022. In our new post<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=d26c77a4e0&e=95568a7c75>, we’ve summarized and labelled the new data based on the survey collection periods and not the survey name. We think this is a more appropriate representation of the food insecurity data collected in these surveys. [Graph of number of people living in food-insecure households in the ten provinces, 2019-2022] <https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=37330a7849&e=95568a7c75> In 2022, the percentage of people living food-insecure households has risen in every province, exceeding the pre-pandemic estimates from 2019. [Graph of percentage of people living in food-insecure households in the ten provinces, 2019-2022] <https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=1bb10ac45d&e=95568a7c75> Take a look at the latest post on our website for more details on children living in food-insecure households and the disproportionate rates of food insecurity about Black and Indigenous peoples. See the latest statistics<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=93e5873e65&e=95568a7c75> ICYMI: Taking a closer look at provincial and territorial budgets and what they could mean for food insecurity [2023 provincial and territorial budget reflections] <https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=4131ffb83d&e=95568a7c75> The new 2022 food insecurity statistics put the recent federal, provincial, territorial budgets in a new light. With such high rates of food insecurity, more effective, evidence-based policy responses are urgently needed. We have yet to see any government in Canada develop policies with the explicit objective of reducing the prevalence and severity of household food insecurity. If this was the goal, we would see policies in these budgets that go further to ensure people had enough money to meet basic needs. In our reaction to the 2023 federal budget in The Conversation<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=c126cd1ceb&e=95568a7c75>, we also highlighted how the new one-time Grocery Rebate takes the right approach by providing cash directly to low-income households but falls short by not improving incomes enough or in an enduring way. We would’ve liked to have seen this approach taken to strategically enhancing the Canada Child Benefit, Canada Workers Benefit, and Employment Insurance for low-income Canadians. Read our reflection on provincial and territorial budgets<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=62af6c3654&e=95568a7c75> Job Opportunity: Part-time Research Analyst (Toronto) We are currently hiring a part-time Research Analyst to support research on the economic predictors of food insecurity, using Statistics Canada population survey data. The research will be completed at the Research Data Centre (RDC) at the downtown campus of the University of Toronto. 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