Poverty Poverty and income in the United States Poverty in Italy Homelessness in the U.S. Key figures Homelessness Number of statutory homeless households aged between 25-34 Number of male rough sleepers on a single night in England Number of statutory homeless households in London ...
In 2023, the highest average amount of disposable income for any age group occurred in the 35 to 44-year-old group, while the age group with the lowest average disposable income were those aged 85 and over.Average annual disposable income in the United Kingdom in 2022/23, by age group ...
Article Open access 16 October 2023 Introduction Child Poverty and its drivers are heavily researched. The Social Metrics Commission (SMC) (2020) estimated that in the UK in 2018/19, 33% of children were in income poverty (compared to only 22% of working-age adults and 11% of pension-age...
The price cut announced today is worth 64% of the lower rate, and 43% of the £300 payment, underlining that energy prices and pensioner poverty are the fundamental issues, rather than an arbitrary benefit unchanged in 25 years and falling in real-terms value ever since. Returning gas and...
"The reality is, most earn less from rent than a part-time barista. This is not passive income. It’s patchy, precarious and under pressure." She said the rental market is "on a slow bleed to collapse and Whitehall has just removed the life support", with one in three considering sell...
J. Wood et al., 2023; Allen et al., 2023; Madden, 2024). I concentrate on how income support might have influenced youth's health on average, across relevant (socioeconomic) groups, and along the health distribution. Throughout, I adopt a value-added framework (e.g. Todd and Wolpin...
Socioeconomic status (SES) inequity was recognized as a driver of some certain infectious diseases. However, few studies evaluated the association between SES and the burden of overall infections, and even fewer identified preventable mediators. This stu
such legislation, as demonstrated during the negotiations of the Working Time Directive, where it staunchly opposed limitations on the number of hours employees could work, arguing it to be an employee's fundamental right to choose the number of hours worked and thereby their level of income. Dur...
First, to maximize the power required to examine the common effects of poverty across its multidimensional aspects, we derived a poverty factor using household income (HI), occupational income (OI) and social deprivation (SD). These three measures capture poverty at the levels of the individual,...
Gebremicael was on the brink of falling into what National Energy Action, a UK charity working to ensure people have a warm home, describes as "fuel poverty", in which a household needs to spend 10 percent or more of its income on energy to maintain a satisfactory heating regime. The av...