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July 29, 2019

Social Metrics Commission publishes new report on poverty in the UK

New report reveals that 4.5 million people are more than 50 per cent below the poverty line, and 7 million people are living in persistent poverty.
September 17, 2018

Social Metrics Commission launches a new measure of UK poverty

The Social Metrics Commission, founded in 2016, has developed a new approach to measuring poverty.
June 23, 2018

Report finds people with poor health 70% more likely to be in persistent poverty

People with longstanding illnesses are almost twice as likely to be ‘materially deprived’ as those without.
May 17, 2016

Latest figures show one third of UK population experience poverty

Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures released on 16 May 2016 show 3.9 million people in the UK are in persistent poverty. The figures show one in three people have experienced poverty in recent years, underlinng the precarious nature of work in Britain.

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