In the Food Banks Canada 2024 Poverty Report Card, Saskatchewan received an overall grade of D- as poverty and food insecurity worsen in the country.
Saskatchewan is one of the provinces that received an overall D- grade in the recently released Food Banks Canada 2024 Poverty Report Card .
According to the report card’s poverty overview, Saskatchewan’s poverty rate of 11.1 per cent was slightly higher than that of Canada as a whole of 9.9 per cent.“Between December 2022 and December 2023, the overall price of goods and services in Saskatchewan increased by 2.7 per cent,” the report card stated. “In that time, the price of food in the province rose by 4.8 per cent.
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