Consistent poverty more likely in lone parent homes, By Paul Cullen, June 2, 2010, Irish Times: “Lone Parent households are up to 10 times more likely to be living in consistent poverty than other households, according to a study presented to the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) today. Exclusion from the labour market through unemployment, retirement or ill-health also greatly increases a person’s chances of ending up in poverty, the research by Chris Whelan of the UCD sociology department and Bertrand Maitre of the ESRI shows. Poverty levels among those excluded from the labour market are over 25 times higher than among those at work, they found. Being a lone parent greatly increases an Irish person’s chances of ending up in poverty but the same is not the case in other European countries. In Finland, for example, the odds of a lone parent being in poverty are only slightly higher than for the wider population…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty