Yarde doesn`t believe in sparring!

Tory rule has increased the number of children, pensioners and workers who live in poverty—reversing a long-term decline.

That’s the finding of a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation think tank. Its UK Poverty 2017 report blamed rising costs of living, the housing crisis, low pay and benefit cuts.

Some 30 percent of children lived in poverty in 2015-16, up from 27 percent in 2011-12. Those most at risk are in single parent families or families with more than two children.

For these families benefit cuts have more than cancelled out the effects of minimum wage increases and tax cuts. Some 16 percent of pensioners are now in poverty, up from 13 percent.

And disabled people are more likely to be poor. Some 30 percent of households including a disabled person are in poverty.

Despite Tory scapegoating of unemployed people, the report notes that rising employment levels are no longer a route out of poverty.

Some workers can’t get the hours they need. Others are trapped on low pay rates—and cuts to benefits such as tax credits and housing benefits hit them

 

Hackney was really deprived area of London during the 80`s with tons of crime, but investers have bought a lot of the housing there and built private housing where social housing used to be forcing working class people to move out of Hackney and middle class people can move in because they can afford the new private housing, it`s called gentrification.

 

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