Effect of low income on health
A new Joseph Rowntree Foundation study, reflects the reality for one family trying to get by on a low income. One in five people in the UK are in poverty, without the resources to meet their minimum needs.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s UK Poverty 2017, shows that over half of people living in poverty are in working households and many are in vulnerable groups. Too often, work doesn’t pay enough or people fall into poverty through circumstances beyond their control. Poverty is, in part, about lacking basic material resources. People are struggling to put food on the table and a recent review by housing and homelessness charity Shelter found that one in every 200 people in the UK is homeless.
