Some insight into the number of families considered low-income from a provincial think tank.
The Rural Ontario Institute finds just 10 per cent of all families in northwestern Ontario can be considered in the low-income bracket.
Director Norman Regatlie says looked three different measures to arrive at that common figure, including the basic measure of the cost of a basket of goods and services and total income.
For the entire province, the figure is about 8.8 per cent.