Well, immigrant poverty is one of the areas where poverty is rising, along with youth poverty, and one of the reasons in common is that wage rates at the low end have been quite low. Generally, a majority of immigrants will work, but often they work at minimum-wage jobs, and minimum wages, generally, have not been adjusted to be above the poverty rate.
We are finally seeing some provinces where they are raising minimum wages, but still, none of them are at or above the poverty line. That's one of the major reasons that immigrants are having a much harder time in the last few years getting ahead and out of poverty than in previous decades, when they were able to start with some challenges and difficulties but were fairly quickly able to move up and become secure. But that's not happening now.
