Falling wages and a vast increase in “insecure work”, such as zero-hours contracts, part-time work and low-paid self-employment, has meant that finding a job today does not necessarily mean getting out of poverty.
This story of poverty in Britain today has been described in Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion, the annual report from social justice charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
It confirms that there are now 13 million people living in poverty in the UK, with as many as 6.6 million of these living in working families. Within this figure, as many as 3.7 million children are living in poverty – a number which has doubled during the past 30 years.
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