nevertheless the risk of poverty is much lower when the father or mother has tertiary education for example about of children are poor when the father has a higher education level while more than of children whose father has a lower secondary school diploma are poor table while poverty rates have been declining in canada immigrants face higher rates of poverty than their canadianborn counterparts and low income rates among recent immigrants in was times higher than the canadianborn population picot and hou addressing indigenous child poverty is done through programmes delivered nationally and at the provincial level as well as through targeted initiatives that include childcare programs labour force development programs and social transfers to indigenous communities