They don’t define what they mean by “hunger and hardship” in the article. After a bit of searching I turns out this is a new term defined for this report only
*A family is said to be in relative poverty if their income is below the poverty line of 60% of median income. A family facing hunger and hardship is typically more than 25% below the poverty line.*
> Having employment is not a reliable route out of hardship, the report concluded, with 58% of people facing hunger and hardship living in a family where someone is working.
I agree with this, rising rent and heat/electricity costs are absolutely ravaging working class and lower middle class families.
MAC-4431 on
Engage your brain for a moment.
Having employment IS a reliable route out of hardship. The stat you’ve quoted is a massive manipulation.
“58% of people facing hunger and hardship living in a family where someone is working”
So you could have a family of 6 people and have one person in that household working only 15hrs per week and that would be considered a working household by the metrics of this study.
How about people stop dossing about wasting money on shit they can ill afford (fags, booze, fast food) and get a full time job (min 37.5 hrs/Pw).
Or would that be too much like effort?
Reasoned_Watercress on
That’ll be why Morrisons just locked the spirits in glass cupboards then
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They don’t define what they mean by “hunger and hardship” in the article. After a bit of searching I turns out this is a new term defined for this report only
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/09/how-many-people-in-the-uk-are-in-hunger-and-hardship
*A family is said to be in relative poverty if their income is below the poverty line of 60% of median income. A family facing hunger and hardship is typically more than 25% below the poverty line.*
So I think that means the poverty line is 60% of median income which was £32.4k last year [link](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/financialyearending2022#:~:text=Median%20household%20disposable%20income%20in,(ONS)%20Household%20Finances%20Survey.). So the poverty line is a family income of £19.4k. and a family facing “hunger and hardship” has an income 25% below that which is just over £14.5k a year
> Having employment is not a reliable route out of hardship, the report concluded, with 58% of people facing hunger and hardship living in a family where someone is working.
I agree with this, rising rent and heat/electricity costs are absolutely ravaging working class and lower middle class families.
Engage your brain for a moment.
Having employment IS a reliable route out of hardship. The stat you’ve quoted is a massive manipulation.
“58% of people facing hunger and hardship living in a family where someone is working”
So you could have a family of 6 people and have one person in that household working only 15hrs per week and that would be considered a working household by the metrics of this study.
How about people stop dossing about wasting money on shit they can ill afford (fags, booze, fast food) and get a full time job (min 37.5 hrs/Pw).
Or would that be too much like effort?
That’ll be why Morrisons just locked the spirits in glass cupboards then