Are the poor getting poorer?
If UK ir coming out of reccesion or going into recovery is not the point, the importat thing is that the benefists should be spread around. Thats why the situation of poor people is comming up in to the Bristish policy.
They are basically two groups with diffrerent conclussions about the situation of "the poor". They are those that claim that poor are getting poorer either because income is gettin concentrated in the hands of the rich or because standards of living are getting worse. On the other side are those who said that the poor are getting richer. Who has the right conclusion?
Chart 1: Real incomes
Some British people have seen their incomes rise, but some of the poores people have seen them fall in the last times. This chart is usefull to understand this: the group with the lowest income is in the firse percentile, the group with the second lowest income is in the second percentile, and then we come to the last (99th) with the group that earns the most. This chart shows how incomes has been changed betweet 1980-2012. You can see that the incomes og the poorest 1% UK population has been falled, and the incomes of the richest 1% hast been risen by about 3%.
Graph: The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Chart 2: Standards of living
UK is a developed country, so "hunger" is not an indicator of how people live. For this reason, the UK government monitors something that they called "severe material deprivation", wich is when people can´t afford at least four of the basics. The chart shows that more people are unable to afford the basics.
Chart 3: Policy change
What was the impact of the coalition? This chart (wich uses the same percentiles that the previous one) shows that the poores 10% of the UK populations stand to lose 4,3% of their incomes as a direct consequence of the direct tax and benefit reforms that has been introduced yet, and planned between April 2012 and April 2015. The richet 20% of the UK will se their incomes rise by 1%.
New taken from:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/oct/02/poor-richer-poverty-living-standards
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