The Institute for Public Policy Research has published NO LONGER ‘MANAGING’: The rise of working poverty and fixing Britain’s broken social settlement.
Key findings from the report are:
- Levels of working poverty are highest in London, Wales and the North of England
- More than one in six working households – a new high – were experiencing poverty even before the coronavirus pandemic took hold in early 2020
- One in 10 families with one full-time and one-part time earner have been pulled into poverty, up from one in 20 a decade ago
- For households with two people in full-time work, the chances of being pulled into poverty have doubled over that time period, rising from 1.4% to 3.9%
- Single parents, single earner couple families and large families are worst affected by rising working poverty, with working poverty rates among families with three or more children hitting a record high at 42%, an increase of over two-thirds over the past 10 years and
- The poverty rate of couple households with one full-time earner is now 31%, almost as high as working households where nobody works full-time.