Editing Ainu people (section)

===Standard of living===
The discrimination and negative stereotypes assigned to the Ainu have manifested in lower levels of education, income, and participation in the economy as compared to their ethnically Japanese counterparts. The Ainu community in Hokkaido in 1993 received welfare payments at a 2.3 times higher rate than that of Hokkaido as a whole. They also had an 8.9% lower enrollment rate from junior high school to high school and a 15.7% lower enrollment into college from high school.{{sfnp|Siddle|1996|p=45}} Due to this noticeable and growing gap, the Japanese government has been lobbied by activists to research the Ainu's [[standard of living]] nationwide. The Japanese government will provide [[Japanese yen|¥]]7&nbsp;million ([[United States dollar|US$]]63,000), beginning in 2015, to conduct surveys nationwide on this matter.<ref>{{cite news |title=First nationwide survey on Ainu discrimination to be carried out |url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/29/national/first-nationwide-survey-ainu-discrimination-carried/ |newspaper=[[Japan Times]] |date=August 29, 2014 |access-date=December 13, 2015 |issn=0447-5763 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224182439/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/08/29/national/first-nationwide-survey-ainu-discrimination-carried/ |archive-date=December 24, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>