Using official government data the report analyses a wide range of issues including low income, debt, ill-health, unemployment and problems in communities
The report has highlighted worrying trends:
Six million people were under-employed in the first half of 2011 – this includes people who are unemployed (2.5m), working part-time but wanting full-time work (1.2m), and those classed as economically inactive but wanting work (2.3m). Though no higher than the previous year, this was 2 million higher than in 2004.
The poverty rate for working-age adults without dependent children is now 20%, the highest since 1997. and is increasing at a faster rate than any other group.
Changes to Tax Credits now mean that an additional 1.4 million households lose over 70p for each extra £1 they earn
The proportion of children living in low income households that were going without ‘essential’ items for reasons of cost was higher in 2009/10 than in 2005/06 across a range of items
The proportion of households in fuel poverty has risen significantly in the last few years. Almost all households in the bottom tenth by income are in fuel poverty, as are half of households in the second bottom tenth.
The number of households accepted as homeless in England rose in 2010/11 for the first time since 2003/04 and now stands at 65,000. The number of court orders for mortgage repossessions in England and Wales rose to 21,000 in the first half of 2011, the first significant rise for three years.
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