UK Poverty 2018
This annual report examines the nature and scale of UK poverty and the effect of the UK poverty rate on the people gripped by it.
The report examines how UK poverty rates have changed in our society over the last few years, as well as over the longer term. The research focuses particularly on changes to poverty among children and workers, as well as giving an overview of trends among pensioners and other groups.
This research reveals that, in our society:
- Child poverty has been rising since 2011/12;
- 4.1 million children are living in poverty, a rise of 500,000 in the last five years;
- Four million workers are living in poverty –a rise of more than half a million over five years; and
- In-work poverty has been rising even faster than employment, driven almost entirely by increasing poverty among working parents.
This report is part of the understanding poverty topic.
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