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How should we define poverty? What are the best methods? Is it even useful when we are referring to some widely used definitions?
Because what is happening in The United Kingdom is somewhat problematic. Politicians is not seeing the poverty in the UK through the same glasses.
When defining poverty, it would be ideal if we all used the same measurements. And just a couple years ago Social Metrics Commission (SMC) published some new ways on how they estimate poverty in the UK .
They take, unlike many others, people’s income, mortgage and housing cost, and childcare cost into account.
They also look at families rather than the individuals, because they have a bigger tendency to share resources.
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In 2020 Boris Johnson, the prime minister in UK, were accused of failing to tackle child poverty by Keir Starmer.
Johnson claimed that since 2010 400,000 fewer families were living in poverty, and with that he concluded, that the overall levels of poverty had fallen.
But in a government report Starmer read that it had gone up by 600,000 since 2012. And it makes a big concern, if the prime minister won’t admit the problems regarding to the increasing poverty within UK.
Because if Johnson can’t see there is a problem, then how is he going to prevent this problem from further develop?
Especially in a time during a worldwide pandemic, where tons of people lost their jobs, and therefore the crisis has caused poverty to grow even more.
And what is even more worrying, is what happened in the late 2020, when the British politician Jacob Rees-Mogg accused Unicef of “playing politics” after they launched a campaign, to help feed the children in the UK.
The thoughts behind this accusation were that Rees-Mogg did not mean Unicef used their money wisely enough.
He thought the money should have gone towards the children in the poorest countries, in which Unicef replied that “every child deserves to “thrive” no matter where they are born” .
And this was an emergency response regarding to the vulnerable children and families during the crisis of the coronavirus.
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