- Increasing numbers of working people live in poverty, report finds, By Randeep Ramesh, November 25, 2012, The Guardian: “Increasing numbers of people in work are finding themselves in poverty, according to a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report highlights the growing incidence of well-educated people on the breadline because of a failure to find a job. The report charts the changes in recent decades in levels of poverty in Britain – and seeks to explain why, despite higher levels of employment and a more qualified workforce, there has not been more success in combating poverty. The Monitoring Poverty report calls for the government to ‘give up the belief that welfare reform’ is the solution and focus instead on the phenomenon of in-work poverty…”
- The working poor: staggering 6m facing insecurity have jobs, November 26, 2012, London Evening Standard: “Millions of workers are facing insecurity, moving in and out of jobs, and poverty, according to a new report. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said over six million people classed as living in poverty, were in households where people worked. Excluding pensioners, in-work poverty now outstrips workless poverty, while 1.4 million people were now working part-time when they wanted a full-time job, an increase of 500,000 since 2009, said the report…”
Month: November 2012
Shared Housing in the US
More U.S. adults sharing households, By Haya El Nasser, November 28, 2012, USA Today: “More than a third of young adults live in someone else’s home, a segment that has grown dramatically since the recession began in 2007 but is starting to inch down — a hint of an improving economy. According to 2011 Census data released Wednesday, the number and percentage of households where adults are doubling up peaked in 2010 at 22.2 million, sliding to 22 million in 2011. Homes shared by adults who are not spouses or partners now make up 19.2% of all households…”
Poverty Rate in Latin America
UN: Latin American poverty rate lowest in 3 decades, with 1 million fewer poor in 2012, Associated Press, November 27, 2012, Washington Post: “The number of people living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean has dropped to its lowest level in three decades due to higher wages, the UN’s regional economic body said on Tuesday. Despite lower poverty levels overall, 167 million people in the region are still considered poor. That’s one million fewer than in 2011, and it represents about 29 percent of the region’s population. Of those, 66 million people remain stuck in extreme poverty, the same as last year…”