Coronavirus Pandemic 'amplifying' Poverty In UK
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published April 05, 2020 | 09:40 AM
London, April 5 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 5th Apr, 2020 ) :The coronavirus pandemic is increasing poverty in Britain, where levels are already high after a decade of austerity triggered by the global financial crisis, according to experts.
Official data shows that more than 14 million people in the UK are classed as living in poverty, or nearly one-quarter of the population.
Some 4.2 million children are poor, or around 30 percent of the total, government figures show.
The situation is worsening with Britons losing jobs en masse as the UK experiences lockdown.
"The risk of poverty is particularly high for workers in sectors like hospitality and retail where people are more likely to be on low wages and in insecure work," said Dave Innes, head of economics at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an organisation for social change.
Over the past fortnight, almost one million adults in the UK have applied for Universal Credit, the government's main form of state aid.
That is nearly 10 times the level in an average two-week period.
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