{"id":2703,"date":"2016-08-05T14:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T14:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:37","slug":"how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/08\/05\/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"How much does poverty cost the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jrf.org.uk\/report\/counting-cost-uk-poverty\">report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation<\/a> which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.\u00a0 This includes welfare benefits and costs to the NHS.\u00a0 Its figure is a shocking \u00a369 billion with \u2018about \u00a31 in every \u00a35 spent on public services\u2019 going to help those living in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpag.org.uk\/cpla\/cost-child-poverty\">Child Poverty Action Group<\/a> has conducted similar research relating to child poverty.\u00a0 Its website has breakdowns at a local authority level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.\u00a0 This includes welfare benefits and costs to the NHS.\u00a0 Its figure is a shocking \u00a369 billion with \u2018about \u00a31 in every \u00a35 spent on public services\u2019 going to help those living in poverty. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[72,93],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","tag-poverty","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}