Incorrect: "No child in the UK lives in poverty. Having a free house to live in and hundreds of pounds each month is not living in poverty. This BS poverty narrative needs to stop."
UK child poverty is measured and published annually by the Department for Work and Pensions in Households Below Average Income, using a defined threshold of 60% of median household income after housing costs. The most…
The claim
"No child in the UK lives in poverty. Having a free house to live in and hundreds of pounds each month is not living in poverty. This BS poverty narrative needs to stop."
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What the evidence shows
UK child poverty is measured and published annually by the Department for Work and Pensions in Households Below Average Income, using a defined threshold of 60% of median household income after housing costs. The most recent statistics record millions of children below it. The commenter is entitled to argue the threshold is the wrong measure — it is relative, so it moves with median incomes — but "no child lives in poverty" contradicts the official statistics rather than reinterpreting them.
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