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3'0" x 26" (ASO 40" x 34141.99
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Last week I was discussing the
rather bleak outlook for food
prices over the next Year. I
mentioned the idea of sub-
stitution for low-income families
and those on fixed incomes, that
the constant spiral of food prices
has prpmpted people to substitute
poultry for beef and hamburger
for steak, But even substitution
is not much help any more as the
costs of the substitutes have risen
so drastically.
The latest report of the
National Council of Welfare
published early this summer was
entitled "Prices and the Poor - a
report on the low income con-
sumer in the Canadiau market-
place."
The thrust of the report is that
the poor have their own par-
ticular consumption patterns and
inflation has ballooned most
exorbitantly in the areas of ex-
penditure of the poor.
For example when the rich and
those of middle incomes turned
from steak to hamburger
recently to ease their own pains
of inflation, the traditional diet of
the poor skyrocketed.
The report says that when food
prices rise faster than the cost of
living generally, the impact is
twice as great on those with in-
comes below $3,000 as it is on
those above $15,000 -because the
food component is twice as large
in the budget of the poor. In other
words, the lower a family's in-
come, the greater the proportion
of this income it spends on food.
Families with incomes of less
than $3,000 spent approximately
27.9 percent of their income on
food while families with incomes
over $15,000 spent only about 13.4
percent of their budgets on food.
Thus, any change in the price of
food will have more than double
the impact on those ,at, the bottom
of the income scale than it will
have on those at the top. The
conclusion spelled out in this
report is that the poor pay more
to get less.
This report points out that as'
the price of various products
• rises,most families will begin to
substitute less expensive
products for more expensive
ones.
However, the price of the
product which is being sub-
stituted will rise because demand
has risen. Families will be forced
to buy less of it and make their
own substitution to something
further down the price scale.
The substitution process
By MRS. IRVIN RADER
DASHWOOD
The Family and Consumer
Affairs Committee with Mrs.
Stuart Wolfe convener was in
charge of the September meeting
of Dashwood W.I.
Roll call was to bring
something from the garden for a
penny sale.
Mrs. Irvin Rader discussed the
motto, I`There is more to wise
shopping than to be first at the
bargain table."
Guest speaker, Jane Pengilley,
home economist for Huron,
spoke on the Metric system. She
stressed that one be not afraid of
it but to take it step by step. We
calculated our weight in
kilograms and our height in
centimeters. She demonstrated
liquid measure in litres and we
converted fahrenheit tem-
peratures to celsius and vice
versa.
Mrs. Sid Baker read a paper on
nutrition,
By JACK
lessens the impact of price in-
creases for many families.
Perhaps they might not like what
they eat as much as 'before, but
this is more a matter of taste.
But what happens to those
families who are already buying
the least expensive, items? What
can they substitute? The answer
of course, is that they are faced
with the alternatives of either
spending a great deal more
proportionally on food (a non-
existent alternative where a
limited budget is already fully
committed) .or simply eating
less. This is precisely the
situation which the poor are
having to confront,
For low income families the
report says that staples are foods
Mrs. Gordon Bender,
president, dealt with the
business. The 4-1-1 leaders, Mrs.
Ray Rader, Mrs. Earl Keller,
Mrs. Gordon Bender, Pat Ben-
der, Mrs. Ernest Miller and Mrs.
Delmar Miller have attended
training school at Exeter and
invite any interested girl to
contact them. The new club is
"The Club Girl Entertains".
Several invitations were ac-
cepted.
The Institute has the birthday
part at Huronview September
18th. The Huron County
Historical Society will hold their
meeting in Dashwood September
23.
Personals
Susan Fischer of the Dashwood
4-H clubs was chosen to attend 4-
H events at London Western Fair.
Mr. & Mrs. Irvin Rader and
Mr. & Mrs. Dave Rader and
Stacey were supper guests with
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Miller, Brenda,
Charlotte and Karen Wednesday
September 4th on the occasion of
Karen's 4th birthday.
Wendy and Michelle Webb,
Kitchener, spent the weekend
with Mr. & Mrs. Howard Datars
and family.
Mrs. Louis Higinell and Mr. &
Mrs. Wilhelm Gueldecstube, St.
Catharines, spent the weekend
with Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd Rader and
Darlene. Mrs. Higinell, a former
pastor's widow-, renewed
acquaintances with members of
Zion Lutheran church.
Mr. & Mrs. Sid Baker and Mr.
& Mrs. Ted Webb, Kitchener,
attended the Nixon-Guenther
wedding at Gary Indiana,
Saturday, September 7th.
Ray Van Dorsselaer is a
patient in University Hospital.
such as hamt4urger, wieners,
liver, potatoes, pasta and bread,
But in the 12 months covered by
the report, from December 1972
to December 1.973 the cost of
these commodities rose much
faster than the cpst of food in
general. Hamburger jumped 35
percent, wieners went up 37
percent, liver 35 percent,
Potatoes 25 percent, and pasta 40
percent. Bread went up 22 per-
cent during the year.
There is substantial well
documented evidence that the
poor are charged more for the
same goods and services than are
the non-poor. The fact of the
limited resources of • the poor
results in the low-income market
being characterized by factors
such as lower sales volumes and
slpwer turnovers of inventory.
This makes it relatively less
attractive for merchandisers and
leads to the charging of higher
unit prices by retail outlets in
these areas.
What neighbourhood stores
often do offer in low-income
areas is credit, The result is that
once the low-income customer is
in debt for one month's groceries
there is no choice where he buys
the next. He is locked into the
same neighbourhood ,store, using
this month's cash to pay last
month's bill and sustain credit for
this month's purchases,
To remedy this situation, the
government must start looking at
a more vigorous competition
policy, the banning of
discriminatory pricing within
food chains, encouragement of
consumer food co-operatives and
a more comprehensive and
concerted attack on marketing
and sales malpractices.
For low-income Canadians,
housing is one of the most ex-
pensive items in the family
budget, surpassed only slightly
by the amount spent on food.
"Prices and the Poor" states that
in 1969 Canadians in the bottom
fifth of the income scale, and
living in cities and towns with a
population over 1,000 paid over
twice the proportion of their
income for housing that families
in the highest fifth paid.
In 1969 according to Statistics
Canada, 53 percent of all
Canadian families living in cities
and towns with a population over
1000 owned their own homes. But
among families in the bottom
fifth of the income scale, only 37.6
percent owned their own homes.
'In the 11 largest cities in Canada,
home ownership among this .‘1,3
lowest income group was down rto
23,6 percent: And' unquestionably
a very large portion of these low
income home-owners were senior
citizens who had bought their
homes many years ago when
prices were still low.
Additionally whole neigh-
borhoods in almost every major
Canadian city are being tran-
sformed from low-income
housing to more profitable uses -
profitable that is to the owners,
but disastrous to the low-income
renters.
The following are some of the
recommendations made by the
National Council of Welfare in
their report "Prices and the
Poor":
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1. Benefit levels of social security
programs should be escalated
according to an index which
takes into account the real
growth in the national income
and not just the inflation factor
reflected in changes in the cost of
living.
2. An immediate analysis must be
undertaken of the nutritional
status of Canada's poor.
3. A thorough and comprehensive
study of practices in the
marketing of food, clothing and
other non-durables as well as
household durables must be
undertaken. Price discrimination
in low-income neighbourhoods
must be eliminated by govern-
ment promoting a more vigorous
competition policy, the en-
couragement of food co-ops and a
more comprehensive and con-
certed attack on marketing and
sales malpractices.
4. With respect to housing, funds
and technical support provided to
the non-profit sector of the
housing market must be in-
creased greatly and there must
be rapid implementation of a
program of rent subsidization
within this sector,
5. There Should be a public
enquiry to explore the
relationship between consumer
Credit and the poor, In the
meantime, special iriventives
Should be given to credit unions to
increase the availability of low-
cost credit to the poOr and
government or government in-
dustry program of subsidized or
guaranteed low interest loans for
low-income consumers should be
initiated, All consumer credit
lenders should be required to
disclose their true annual interest
rates in all advertising.
These are some of the
recommendations included in the
Report by the National Council of
Welfare entitled "Prices and the
Poor'''. Copies may be obtained
from the National Council of
Welfare, Brooke Claxton
Building, -Ottawa, KIA 0K9,
I would be very interested in
hearing your comments and
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