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Tag: poverty

  • The Death of Awaab Ishak

    Awaab Ishak was a toddler who died in December 2020 as a direct result of exposure to black mould in his flat in Rochdale.

  • Why do Poor students underachieve at A-level?

    16-19 year old students who are eligible for free school meals underachieve by 3 A-level grades compared to their wealthier peers. This is primarily because of lower prior attainment at GCSE, but also because poorer students take fewer and different qualifications (BTECs more likely than A-levels). This is according to some recent quantitative research published…

  • Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis: Case Studies

    Qualitative case studies of how real people are managing the Cost of Living Crisis is a useful way to provide insight into the reality of poverty in the UK in 2022, adding some necessary depth to poverty statistics which can be rather inhuman. A very useful contemporary resource which does just this is a recent…

  • Sociological Perspectives on the Cost of Living Crisis in the UK

    Inflation in the UK hit 9% in April 2022, mainly due to the rising cost of energy prices and food prices, the main cause of which was supply-line shocks caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, but also because of the longer term disruption to business caused by two years of the Covid-19…

  • 31% of Children in the UK are living in Relative Poverty

    The latest research from the Nuffield Foundation has found that 31% of children in the United Kingdom are living in relative poverty in 2021. The percentage rises to 36% for children under five years old. The rates of child poverty have been increasing on average for the last five years. Child Poverty and Ethnicity There…

  • How Poor People Survive in America

    Neoliberal policies in America over the last 30 years have led to massive economic inequalities. Policies such of tax cuts for the rich and restrictions in welfare spending mean that now even working people on relatively high incomes cannot afford rent in some of the more expensive areas of America, such as California. As a…

  • The Rich, The Poor and the Trash

    Summary of a documentary on global inequalities and waste

  • Is poverty a social problem in the UK?

    Is poverty a social problem in the UK today?

  • Displacing the Poor from London (and its relevance to critical victimology)

    Local Councils in London are increasingly resorting to moving poor homeless families out of London, because they can’t afford to meet their housing needs within London. In most cases they’re being moved to Kent and Essex, but in sometimes moves are made much further afield: What the map above shows is the literal relocation of…

  • How many people are in poverty in the UK?

    How many people are in poverty in the UK?

    The easy answer is to say around 22% of the population, roughly 14 million people. The long answer starts with the sentence ‘it depends on how you define and measure poverty’, in which case you get various different statistics on the poverty rate. Statistics on poverty in the UK According to the Social Metrics Foundation,…