{"id":1932,"date":"2015-03-13T12:27:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:24","slug":"are-young-people-the-new-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2015\/03\/13\/are-young-people-the-new-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Are young people the \u2018new poor?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sticerd.lse.ac.uk\/dps\/case\/spcc\/RR05.pdf\">latest LSE research<\/a> has revealed that despite better qualifications, young people in their 20s have suffered a higher percentage of falling wages than older generations. The report also considers the impact of the recession 2007-2013 by gender, region and ethnicity. A<a href=\"http:\/\/sticerd.lse.ac.uk\/dps\/case\/spcc\/RR06.pdf\"> separate paper <\/a>considers economic inequality in London.<\/p>\n<p>In its 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrf.org.uk\/media-centre\/young-working-and-renting-uk-poverty-65931\">Poverty and Social Exclusion report<\/a> the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that levels of poverty amongst the under 25 working population were rising.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent paper by <a href=\"http:\/\/ftp.iza.org\/dp8835.pdf\">Stephen Jenkins<\/a> compares income distribution in industrialised nations since 1964.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/household-income\/poverty-and-employment-transitions-in-the-uk-and-eu\/2007-2012\/sty-how-effective-is-getting-a-job-in-helping-people-leave-poverty-.html\">Use ONS data<\/a> to provide insight into UK poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest LSE research has revealed that despite better qualifications, young people in their 20s have suffered a higher percentage of falling wages than older generations. The report also considers the impact of the recession 2007-2013 by gender, region and ethnicity. A separate paper considers economic inequality in London. In its 2014 Poverty and Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,15,9],"tags":[235,65,72,93,205],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-finance","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-economics","tag-labour-market","tag-poverty","tag-united-kingdom","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}