{"id":245844,"date":"2023-08-16T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=245844"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:48:22","slug":"poverty-in-the-6th-largest-economy","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/poverty-in-the-6th-largest-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty in the 6th largest economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How is it that Britain has its lowest unemployment rate on record, while around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/news\/social-justice\/uk-poverty-the-facts-figures-effects-solutions-cost-living-crisis\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one in five are classed as living in poverty<\/a>? That&#8217;s capitalism working normally, folks.<\/p>\n<p>14.4 million in 2021\/22 were living on the breadline according to the UK government&#8217;s own figures. That includes nearly one in three children (29%), a figure that&#8217;s risen by around 600,000 in the last ten years. 71% of those children belong to a family where at least one adult is working.<\/p>\n<p>The rich get richer, but you won&#8217;t. The Food Foundation estimates that a further 800,000 people will end up in &#8216;absolute poverty&#8217; over the next year, and child poverty is expected to rise by 170,000 by 2027-28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-245844","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/245844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}