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Child Poverty.
Child Poverty will rise to a record 60 Year High under a Boris Led Government,.
Because in its Manifesto it retains Benefit Cuts.
Because in its Manifesto it retains Benefit Cuts.
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child pov has gone thro a few phases of definition and redefinition innit?
Those with less than 60 per cent of median income are classified as poor. ... The poverty line in the UK is defined as a household income below 60% of the average. This threshold is currently around £195 a week for a lone parent with two children. Using this definition there are over 3 million children living in poverty.
median income is I think 28k
say thirty
so anyone on less than £18k wivva child is thought to be in poverty.
( Egypt and Mali fr'instance, av daily income is $2)
Those with less than 60 per cent of median income are classified as poor. ... The poverty line in the UK is defined as a household income below 60% of the average. This threshold is currently around £195 a week for a lone parent with two children. Using this definition there are over 3 million children living in poverty.
median income is I think 28k
say thirty
so anyone on less than £18k wivva child is thought to be in poverty.
( Egypt and Mali fr'instance, av daily income is $2)
So-called "child poverty" will always increase year on year regardless of who governs and regardless of what they do. This is because it is a relative measure as Peter describes. As average (median) income increases the numbers of those with an income of less than 60% of that average will automatically go up.
Nobody in this country is living in absolute poverty unless they choose to (i.e. they don't work and they don't engage with the people who dish free money out). People living in real poverty cannot afford a mobile phone, a colour telly or to pay someone to cook their meals for them. There are few people allegedly in poverty who are without those things.
Nobody in this country is living in absolute poverty unless they choose to (i.e. they don't work and they don't engage with the people who dish free money out). People living in real poverty cannot afford a mobile phone, a colour telly or to pay someone to cook their meals for them. There are few people allegedly in poverty who are without those things.
It's easy to assume that people living in poverty don't work.
You get married, have a couple of kids, two incomes, living within your means and then one parents decides to leave. Now you have one parent trying to sustain a life that two people and two incomes decided on.
It's so easy to say 'sell the house, TV's, phones' etc...but in reality that's rubbish. By the time the bills are paid there often isn't enough left over to put food on the table. Or maybe 'just' enough to feed the kids.
Absent parents don't always help out either.
You get married, have a couple of kids, two incomes, living within your means and then one parents decides to leave. Now you have one parent trying to sustain a life that two people and two incomes decided on.
It's so easy to say 'sell the house, TV's, phones' etc...but in reality that's rubbish. By the time the bills are paid there often isn't enough left over to put food on the table. Or maybe 'just' enough to feed the kids.
Absent parents don't always help out either.
Ummmm My younger daughter is in that position - husband walked out, it's all been horrible and it's still stressful now his girlfriend is making overtures to the kids. That's why I'm away on Mondays, I drive 60 miles to collect them from school, sort them out with homework etc., do extra work with spellings and tables and feed them until their mum gets back (she's doing a 'Teach First' course in maths so she can support herself and them) from next September. Since I can't drive at night (cataract forming) I have to sleep over, which leaves Mr J2 (86) on his own.
Yup, I understand about poverty and scrabbling to live - and working your socks off at the same time. Our income is also being hit by the petrol bills etc.. :(
Yup, I understand about poverty and scrabbling to live - and working your socks off at the same time. Our income is also being hit by the petrol bills etc.. :(
