Child and working-age poverty from 2010 to 2013
A new study from the Institute of Fiscal Studies gives projections of relative and absolute income poverty among children and working-age adults for each year between 2010/11 and 2013/14.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation supported this work as part of its work to keep a spotlight on people and places in poverty during the public spending cuts.
Some key findings include:
Hundreds of thousands more adults and children will be in absolute poverty by 2014. By 2013/14, under new Government reforms on welfare and poverty there will be:
· a rise in absolute child poverty of about 200,000;
· a rise in absolute poverty for working-age people without children, of about 300,000;
· a rise in relative child poverty of about 100,000; and
· a rise in relative poverty among working-age people without children of about 200,000.
Coalition reforms will mean slightly more people in poverty than if previous policies had continued, so more needs to be done to reduce the numbers of people living in poverty and disadvantage