The Jospeh Rowntree Foundation's latest UK Poverty Report shows that:
The average person in poverty in 2021-24 was 29% below the poverty line, up from 23% in 1994-97.
More than 1 in 5 people in the UK were living in poverty in 2023/2-4. This amounts to 14.2 million people. Of these, 6.8 million were living in very deep poverty.
When 20% of our population are living in poverty, this is not happenstance but the result of deliberate political choice(s)!
#Poverty #politics
h/t JRF/LinkedIn
@ChrisMayLA6 Reminds me of this article from last year - about how the top 50 UK families own more than the bottom 50% of the population.
Worsening wealth inequality has got to be the #1 sign of a failed society. And yes - an ongoing strategy, not an accident.
@clarebee @ChrisMayLA6 This.
When wealth is being redistributed from the poor to the rich, that is an objective sign that the government is failing in its primary obligations.
Wealth inequality must inevitably lead to social instability, and ultimately to breakdown.
