One in six children live in jobless households

donaldtramp

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6569604.ece

Almost one in six children in Britain are living in households in which nobody has a job, according to a new report.
The UK average for children in jobless households is 15.3 per cent, but this rises to almost a quarter in London and 18 per cent in Wales, the North East, the North West and the West Midlands.
The study, released today by the Office for National Statistics, also shows that 22 per cent of British children live in low income households.
The figures are highest in the North East, where 28 per cent of people under the age of 20 live in families with an income at least 40 per cent below the UK average of about £34,000.

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Yorkshire and Humber and the North West also suffer high levels of child privation, with one quarter of all children living in low income households.
The figures come ten years after the Government pledged to eradicate child poverty by 2020.
The ONS said: “Although there are differences between regions, the data suggest that the most significant influence on children’s experiences growing up is likely to be income deprivation.”
While children growing up in affluent families would have very different experiences depending on the region, those growing up in relative hardship would face similar struggles no matter where they were from, it said.
The annual report, which collated figures from a range of national and local sources on the 15 million children in almost 7.5 million families across the UK, also looked at child health, education and family arrangements.

It continues.....

Clowns Socialist Eutopian experiment has failed miserably.
All this talk of creating of a fair society has taken away basic human dignity in the wish to work, believing in yourself and wanting to do something with your life.
He has condemned millions of people to a subsistence life, leeching from the state instead of going out and doing something with their lifes.
It is just far too easy to take your "entitlements" and sit in and watch Jeremy Kyle.

This country is going down the toilet and taking millions of Brown's "citizens" with it.

IveSeenTheLight

Quite a worrying statistic.

I wonder how many of these households however want to work.

donaldtramp

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Quite a worrying statistic.

I wonder how many of these households however want to work.

I think you'll find that because of the ludicrous set up of the benefits and tax credits systems there will be a HUGE amount of people who won't want to work.
Meanwhile the people who work get taxed to the eyeballs!!
Simply unsustainable and this ludicrous set up needs dismantling fast.

Is it any wonder our country is crumbling???

inspector_monkfish

lazy kids.

they should go out and get a job down t'pits
or as a chimney sweep

donaldtramp

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

lazy kids.

they should go out and get a job down t'pits
or as a chimney sweep

Lazy parents more like.....
Do they not consider the ability to provide for kids before having them??

Doesn't matter though eh? The people in jobs will pay for their own kids plus these loser's kids.

Ah the great fair socialist society we live in. Marvellous.

ILW

The number is 1 in 4 in London

inspector_monkfish

ILW wrote: »

The number is 1 in 4 in London

smaller houses

geoffky

Most of these people never have had a chance to be able to get a decent job..ie more that 22k a year..the system they where born into made them born with many other people having a head start in life...imagine the head start you get when you are born into middle class parents.. its massive,

ILW

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

smaller houses

Single mothers

prowla

Right now there aren't enough jobs to go around, so it doesn't really matter whether the people who are unemployed want to work or not.

kennyboy66_2

donaldtramp wrote: »

I think you'll find that because of the ludicrous set up of the benefits and tax credits systems there will be a HUGE amount of people who won't want to work.

May be plenty of things wrong with it, but how does working tax credits encourage people not to work