UK Poverty data 2019/20

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation continues to be one of the most reliable sources of data and analysis on UK poverty. Their UK poverty 2019/20 report can be accesed via their site, here.

It’s just not right that 14 million people are locked into poverty in the UK – that’s more than one in five of the population (22%). Those 14 million are made up of eight million working-age adults, four million children and two million pensioners. At times during the last 20 years, the UK dramatically reduced poverty among people who had traditionally been most at risk – pensioners and children – but this progress has begun to unravel...