The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
Living standards
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27/01/2016
Media coverage of PSE UK findings
The Poverty and Social Exclusion research has received extensive coverage in the media. Details of the main articles in the press and interviews on radio/tv to date are listed below, including, where available, links. Many of these articles and interviews provide good summaries of key aspects of the research. See, for examples: ‘The resistible rise of mass poverty’ (Tribune, March 6-9, 2015),for an overall summary of key findings and Thinking Allowed with Laurie Taylor for a discussion with Joanna Mack on the measurement of poverty (20 May, 2015.Category: -
06/05/2015
Talk is not enough: tackling inequality is now an economic imperative
It has long been recognised that extreme inequality has many serious social consequences, as well as causing economic fragility and weakness - now the time has surely come to act.
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01/05/2015
UK living standards: PSE election briefing
PSE analysis of unpublished data shows that the majority of the UK population has suffered from a fall in their living standards during the current government’s term of office. The data, which the DWP had declined to publish before the election, was released to the EU statistical office.
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22/11/2014
Child poverty and social exclusion
The final report into child poverty and social exclusion finds 30% of children lack two of more of the child necessities and that child deprivation would be much higher if parents were not sacrificing their own living standards for their children's sake.
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25/05/2014
Hard times: 2014
The Hard Times reports provide evidence gathered by communities themselves on the impact of austerity and cuts on families and young people across Northern Ireland. Watch the accompanying films on home repossession, struggles with debt and youth hopes and dreams on the community webpages.
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13/05/2014
Findings
CiA Feeling the strain_1
I feel like I am walking on the edge of a cliff and at any moment I might fall off.
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11/02/2014
Richest 10 per cent have twice income of bottom half
The richest ten per cent of the UK working-age population now have nearly twice the original income between them of the entire bottom half of the distribution, according to a report from the Resolution Foundation think tank.
The Foundation's annual audit of trends in living standards also reveals that, despite the beginnings of a slow improvement, the living standards of the typical household will still be 3.5 per cent lower in 2018-19 than they were at the start of the financial crisis of 2008, only just inching above the level they were last at in 2005-06.
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29/11/2013
PSE NI 2012 Living standards questionnaire with top-level results
This annotated questionnaire gives the top level results for all the questions for Northern Ireland only. It provides an overview of the state of Northern Ireland today and the difficulties people face in trying to make ends meet: for example 43% of households could not afford to pay an unexpected, but necessary, expense of £500.
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14/10/2013
PSE UK 2012: Living standards questionnaire with top-level results
The top level results from the PSE UK living standards survey can be found on the annotated PSE UK living standards questionnaire. This provides details on a wide range of topics such as fuel poverty and debt. For example, 6% of households have fallen behind with some or many of their bills and a further 12% have a constant struggle to keep up.
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30/06/2013
Global crash ‘widened UK inequality’
The global economic crash of 2007 resulted in widening income inequalities in the UK during the years that immediately followed it, according to a new study from the London School of Economics.
The study forms part of the 'Social Policy in a Cold Climate' research project charting developments in a wide range of social issues since 2007.
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