Britons divide sharply over whether exclusion from ordinary living standards counts as poverty.
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Children are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries.
Destitution causes children immediate suffering – and can affect them throughout their lives.
Working full time at the national living wage only earns a salary of £20,375.
Energy-saving ‘hacks’ risk implying that households are to blame for rising prices by not doing enough to cut their energy use.
Poverty impacts your mental health as much as your daily life and your physical wellbeing.
Why the government’s main measure of poverty doesn’t tell us much about the lowest-income people.
Experts on poverty in Britain explain how destitution affects different groups of people and aspects of life.
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Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Employment Research, University of Westminster
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Assistant Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath
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Lecturer, University of Chichester
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Research Fellow, Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
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Research Associate, Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP), Loughborough University
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Research Fellow, School of Geographical Science, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Business Economics, University of Bath