Groups most likely to experience poverty
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- Created on: 09-04-14 17:22
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- Groups most likely to experience poverty
- Lone parents
- more likely to work part time
- Childcare responsibilities, money for nanny
- Households with no paid work
- No income
- Rely on benefits
- No guranteed neccesities
- Families with children under 11
- Pay for school items
- Rely on FSM
- Adults in 1 person households
- One income to pay bills
- Children and young people
- No jobs/income
- Education fees?
- Leave school before 16
- No qualifications
- Low paid job
- = Poverty
- Women
- Maternity leave= less promotions
- Part time = less pay
- Glass ceiling
- Childcare fees
- Live longer, less pensions
- Ethnic Minorities
- X English
- X qualifications
- No raises= same job
- Foreign qualifications not seen as valid
- Less likely to claim benefits they're entitled to
- Face discrimination/racism
- Lone parents
- Types of poverty
- Absolute poverty
- when people’s income is so low that they cannot obtain the minimum needed to survive
- Relative poverty
- When people’s income is well below average so they are poor compared with others in their society.
- They cannot afford to have the general standard of living that most other people in their society enjoy
- Poverty line
- A government-approved line that divides people who are living below a set income level (living below the poverty line) from those above it.
- Absolute poverty
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