WP reported a sharp increase in child poverty in the UK

High rents and food prices have triggered an increase in child poverty rates in the UK. The Washington Post (WP) writes about this on November 17.

"Across the UK, families who once belonged to the middle class are losing ground as rents, childcare costs and food prices outpace wage growth," the article says.

It is noted that child poverty has reached its highest level since the beginning of 2002, despite the fact that most poor families have at least one working parent.

According to the authors of the article, for decades, politicians have considered work to be the main protection against poverty. The problems listed by the publication show that this is not the case.

"The cost of child care has increased dramatically. There is a shortage of affordable housing. The main social security payment in the UK lost its value even during the years of inflation, because benefits were not always indexed in accordance with rising costs," the article emphasizes.

According to analysts, the reason why hundreds of thousands of children "ended up below the poverty line" was the so-called "two-child limit." According to this measure, families cannot receive payments after the birth of their third or subsequent children.

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On November 14, The Guardian newspaper reported a rapid increase in the number of homeless people in the UK. Their number has reached 300 thousand people. As journalist Simon Jenkins clarified in his article, the recent increase in the number of homeless people is largely due to the chaos in the courts and the parole system, as well as a sharp increase in immigration. He believes that the UK government is focused on building new homes for its constituents, rather than fighting homelessness.

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