{"id":2582,"date":"2010-05-31T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2010-05-31T12:06:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T11:06:22","slug":"how-much-poverty-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"How much poverty in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extract from an analysis of the most recent figures from the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most widely used measure of relative poverty is the number of people living in households with incomes below 60% of the median. (If households were lined up from richest to poorest, adjusted for family size, the median income would be that of the household in the middle.)<\/p>\n<p>On this basis, the number of people in poverty fell by 100,000 to 10.9 million before housing costs in 2008-09 (18%), but was largely unchanged on an after housing costs basis at 13.4 million (22%).<\/p>\n<p>Having increased in each of the three previous years, poverty is still higher than its recent low-point in 2004\u201305. However, it is significantly lower than when the recent Labour Government came to office in 1997.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifs.org.uk\/pr\/hbai2010_1.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extract from an analysis of the most recent figures from the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies: &#8220;The most widely used measure of relative poverty is the number of people living in households with incomes below 60% of the median. (If households were lined up from richest to poorest, adjusted for family size, the median [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}