Louisa Britain

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Profane. Poor. ME/CFS. Unashamed. Veteran of the free school meals shambles and now editing an anthology of truths on poverty. Is @RoadsideMum on Twitter.

12. I'll just leave you with these figures:

"More than one in five of the UK population (22%) are in poverty– 14.5 million people.

Of these,
8.1 million are working-age adults, 4.3 million are children and 2.1 million are pensioners."

Source: https://www.jrf.org.uk/data/overall-uk-poverty-rates#:~:text=More%20than%20one%20in%20five,in%20poverty%E2%80%93%2014.5%20million%20people.

Overall UK Poverty rates

JRF