Poverty Kills - Interview w/ Dr. Dennis Raphael

Being poor is hard. It complicates day to day life and adds stress to already stressful situations — it also kills you. We’re joined by Dr. Dennis Raphael, Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto who shares that poverty kills Canadians early and increases the likelihood of contracting nearly every major terminal illness — poverty is the number one cause of death among Canadians. Ottawa knows it, and your elected officials know it — who is going to do something about it?