Fifth of UK population below low income threshold


	Fifth of UK population below low income threshold

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1-26-2008 2:16 PM

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Not much has changed for the poor during the monetary miracle of the world's fourth richest economy.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4e6427a9-e72a-4c48-b7fa-aae96d212cf2/3B54BD5F-9747-4A01-A195-FDD116359F6F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml" href="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.poverty.org.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml">The most commonly used threshold of low income is a household income that 
  is 60% or less of the average (median) household income in that year. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml">The latest year for which data is available is 
	2005/06</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml">In 2005/06, almost 13 million people in the UK were living in households 
    below this low income threshold.  This is around a fifth (22%) of the population.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml">This 13 million figure is an increase of ¾ million compared with the 
	previous year, 2004/05.  It follows six uninterrupted years of 
	decreases from 1998/1999 to 2004/05 and is the first increase since 1996/97</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The UK has a higher proportion of its population in relative low income 
  than most other EU countries: of the 27 EU countries, only 5 have a higher 
  rate than the UK.</LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The proportion of people living in relative low income in the UK is twice that of the 
	Netherlands, and one-and-half times that of both France and Germany.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.poverty.org.uk/01/index.shtml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.poverty.org.uk/img/349CF53F-521F-41BF-88EC-991D6E466AAC" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B54BD5F-9747-4A01-A195-FDD116359F6F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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