Commuters outside Union Station construction site and panhandler, Toronto, Canada. Photograph by Larry Towell/Magnum. odi Dean was looking forward to back-to-school season this year. For the first time in a long time, she and her husband had some money to spend. Usually, their eleven-year-old daughter wore hand-me-down clothes from her older siblings. “This year, we were hoping to buy her her own shirts,” says Dean, who lives in Hamilton, Ontario. “No faded shirts. Just crispy clean new shirts.”
The difference was that Dean had a few hundred extra dollars in her pocket each month — $325 Canadian dollars ($250 USD), […]
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