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
