Eldorado Posted March 30, 2019 #1 Share Posted March 30, 2019 "New Government data shows that, of the 4.1 million children in poverty overall, there has been an increase in the number of children caught in severe poverty to 2.8 million. Of these, the number of children in poverty that come from a working household has risen from 58% in 2010/11 to 70% in 2017/18. This is despite repeated claims by the Government that employment is the most effective means of tackling poverty and that current welfare reforms the best means of incentivising work." Full shame at the National Children's Bureau: https://www.ncb.org.uk/news-opinion/news-highlights/work-not-enough-stop-children-being-trapped-poverty-number-children "According to the Government’s annual poverty statistics, the percentage of poor children in working families has increased from 67% to 70%." At LocalGov dot UK: https://www.localgov.co.uk/Government-is-failing-to-combat-child-poverty-campaigners-say-/47150 "Poverty increases among children and pensioners across UK." At the UK Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/28/poverty-increases-among-children-and-pensioners-across-uk 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted March 30, 2019 #2 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essan Posted March 30, 2019 #3 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Poverty is relative. If the poorest people increase their income by 20% but the richest by 25%, the net result is more people in poverty, even though everyone has more money! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted March 30, 2019 #4 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I wonder how that figure splits up into nationals and non-nationals? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevewinn Posted March 30, 2019 #5 Share Posted March 30, 2019 back in 1993 100% of UK children lived in poverty as none had a playstation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightAngel Posted March 30, 2019 #6 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Totally unacceptable! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skliss Posted March 31, 2019 #7 Share Posted March 31, 2019 How much does the average worker pay in taxes out of their paycheck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Wellington Posted March 31, 2019 #8 Share Posted March 31, 2019 On 30/03/2019 at 4:24 AM, Eldorado said: "New Government data shows that, of the 4.1 million children in poverty overall, there has been an increase in the number of children caught in severe poverty to 2.8 million. Of these, the number of children in poverty that come from a working household has risen from 58% in 2010/11 to 70% in 2017/18. This is despite repeated claims by the Government that employment is the most effective means of tackling poverty and that current welfare reforms the best means of incentivising work." Full shame at the National Children's Bureau: https://www.ncb.org.uk/news-opinion/news-highlights/work-not-enough-stop-children-being-trapped-poverty-number-children "According to the Government’s annual poverty statistics, the percentage of poor children in working families has increased from 67% to 70%." At LocalGov dot UK: https://www.localgov.co.uk/Government-is-failing-to-combat-child-poverty-campaigners-say-/47150 "Poverty increases among children and pensioners across UK." At the UK Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/28/poverty-increases-among-children-and-pensioners-across-uk The UKs national debt has started to decrease but we still have full austerity in place. Why are we not phasing it out yet? We cannot wait for Brexit to happen, we might be waiting 2 more years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hetrodoxly Posted March 31, 2019 #9 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I was one of 11 kids we didn't know we were poor until this lady from the council told us we were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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