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Poverty has been a problem in the UK for an extended period, it has been rising for too long, citizens of the country are in need of change.

In 2017 1.5 million people in the country had to live with 10£ or less a day after rent or let go of essential basic needs such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing, or toiletries for about a month's time.

To put that into perspective Cyprus’s total population is around 1.2 million. Also, poverty is not only defined by unemployment

because a large percentage of people in poverty have a job but get paid wages so low that they find it hard to cover their living expenses.

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On the other hand, some think that the government's policies, that let the market forces indirectly determine the number of jobs, all this while boosting the economics of the country , is a better solution than reinforcing the welfare system by increasing public spending.

This is at least Prime Minister Theresa May's point of view that we see in “Corbyn attacks May over food bank usage”.

But should the millions of people that live in poverty wait even longer, for the government to make jobs for them, even if general knowledge proves that there has been a big rise in poverty since the introduction of the government's austerity policies.

For example, from 2008 to 2018, the largest food bank charity Trussells Trust increased the supply of emergency food parcels by over 5000 percent.

As the Australian professor Philip Alston states in the article “Poverty in the UK is ‘systematic’ and ‘tragic’, says UN special rapporteur”, the ideological change that led to downgrading the social safety net, to instead focus on work as a solution for the current situation .