According to the latest figures, nearly 13 million people, just under one in four people in the UK, live in poverty. One in seven children grow up in poverty in the UK. Meanwhile, 1 billion – one in six people around the world – live in extreme poverty. This book examines poverty, both in the UK and around the world. In addition to children, other affected groups discussed include women, mothers, and the elderly. Chapter one examines the situation in the UK while chapter two explores global poverty.
The information comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and surveys, literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Poverty in the UK
The facts about poverty in the UK, Poverty: the facts, One in seven UK children live in poverty, Child poverty, Breaking the cycle of child poverty, Child poverty in the UK, Social exclusion, Tackling child poverty, UK tweens and teens among Europe’s richest, Poverty is damaging mothers and their babies, Households below average income, Rich-poor divide ‘as wide as 60 years ago’, UK rich not afraid of the red . . ., 2m Britons are a week from the breadline, The earnings gap, Women and the poverty trap, What are benefits?, Older people and poverty, Government urged to back ‘social tourism’..
Chapter Two: Global Poverty
Global poverty, Poverty, World leaders ‘could do more’ to tackle poverty, Natural resources are path out of poverty, What do you know?, Frequently asked questions on world debt, Millennium Development Goals, Millennium Development Goals: poverty and hunger, Poverty and hunger, Trading for justice, Fairtrade takes off in UK, Awareness of Fairtrade, Voters demand more action on world poverty, The rich-poor divide, Children and poverty, Childhood under threat, Cost of school beyond reach of millions, Gender discrimination.
Key Facts
Additional Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
• Just under 1 in 4 people in the UK – or nearly 13 million people – live in poverty, according to the latest figures. This includes nearly 1 in 3 children (almost 4 million). (page 1)
• Poverty is defined by Unicef as households with income below 50% of the national average. With 15.4% of British children falling into that category, the UK ranked seventh from bottom of a list of 24 industrialised nations studied by Unicef. (page 4)
• Ninety-three per cent of the population think that it is important to tackle child poverty in the UK with 74 per cent thinking it is very important to tackle the issue. (page 10)
• The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever, with the wealthiest 20 per cent of the population earning 17 times as much as much as the poorest 20. (page 16)
• Over 1 billion people – 1 in 6 people around the world – live in extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $1 a day. (page 21)
• 20% of the world’s population lives on less than 50p a day. (page 26)
• 815 million people still can’t get the food they need for healthy, active lives. Most of these hungry people are women and children. (page 30)
• 78 per cent of people want to see the main political parties do more on fighting global poverty. (page 34)
• Infant mortality in low-income countries is 13 times greater than in high-income countries. (page 35)
Poverty Study Guide
Each book in the Issues series has a study guide. These four-page guides provide a variety of discussion points and other activities to suit a wide range of ability levels and interests.
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Price: £1.50
ISBN: 978 1 86168 355 7
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