A third of people in the UK have experienced poverty in recent years, By Katie Allen, May 16, 2016, The Guardian: “One in three people have experienced poverty in recent years, according to figures that underline the precarious nature of work in Britain. Anti-poverty campaigners welcomed news that the proportion of people experiencing long-term, or persistent, poverty had declined to one of the lowest rates in the EU. But they highlighted Britons’ relatively high chances of falling into poverty as the latest evidence that a preponderance of low-paying and low-skilled jobs left many families at risk of hardship…”
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Low-Income Families with Children
Parents, education, and the relentlessness of low incomes, By Ami Albernaz, April 6, 2015, Boston Globe: “Many aspects of the economic picture have improved since the height of the recession in late 2008. Yet the number of children living in families categorized as poor or near-poor remains stubbornly high, recently released figures from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University show. Analyzing data from the US Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey, the latest available, researchers found 44 percent of kids in the US live in low-income families, with half of these families categorized as poor. These figures are up 13 percent and 23 percent, respectively, from pre-recession rates in 2007. Low-income families of four with two children are defined as having an annual income below $47,248; poor families (also of four with two children) are defined as having an income below $23,624…”
Ohio Poverty Report
Report: Half of Ohioans one paycheck away from poverty, By Jona Ison, March 11, 2015, Marion Star: “Despite a rosy outlook on employment, poverty in Ohio is the highest since 1960, and about half of Ohioans are one paycheck away from not making ends meet. In 2012, 1.8 million Ohioans — 16.3 percent of residents — were living in poverty, up about 100,000 people from 2010. Poverty is growing fastest in Ohio’s suburbs, nearly twice as fast as in metropolitan areas, according to the annual State of Poverty report released this week by the Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies…”