UK poverty crisis despite rising employment

It has been revealed that 58% of UK households in poverty actually have at least one adult in work, despite the belief that working is the way out to get out of poverty. This shocking statistic comes from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and has caused experts to say that it “highlights one of the biggest issues” facing our society.

IFS, one of the country’s most respected think tanks, won the 2019 award for ‘statistic of the year’, but the contents of the figure definitely take away any cause for celebration. The cases of in-work poverty have…