Balance a Working Poverty Budget You’re a single person living alone in Ontario and work 35 hours per week in a minimum-wage job with no benefits. Your monthly budget is $1435. Estimate your monthly expenses and try to balance this budget. (Try it even if you are not from Ontario)
To see how much the 20% of Ontarians with the lowest incomespend in each category compared to all Ontarians on average,
An Ontario-based group produced this interactive simulation that lets you determine how you spend your monthly wages.
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Tags: Anti-poverty strategies, Budget, poverty, Poverty Analysis
