Poverty: A Briefing Paper
The paper covers the following areas:
- Defining and measuring poverty
- Child poverty
- Pensioner poverty
- Poverty among working age adults
- Low Education Attainment
Summary
The main conclusions of the latest report include the following national observations:
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About 50% of children living in poverty do not live in workless households. It follows that the government’s claim that ‘work is the route out of poverty’ is not true for many people.
- Although poverty has been reduced among pensioners, it has not been reduced among working-age adults
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Earnings inequalities are widening (75% of the extra income generated over the last decade has been distributed to richer households.)
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