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Can anyone find a link to...

Find "Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 1994/95–2003/04", a Government publication that should prove useful? --bodnotbod 11:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That would be Households Below Average Income at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai.asp --Henrygb 17:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Poverty

Can anyone find data of poverty stats within cities or regions that would prove useful and indeed interesting?

Update?

This article doesn't appear to have had an update for a few years. What is the stance of the current Conservative/Lib Dem government on poverty? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.39.210 (talk) 16:14, 24 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally, stating what the 60% factor means to 04/05 levels of income means very little in 10/11. Update please. FloreatAntiquaDomus 17:12, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Cleanup/Rewrite

This article is very very poorly written and structured especially the 'Political Party' sections which are very biased. Like the 'Polly Toynbee anathema' remark, I have removed that remark. It badly needs a massive cleanup. Christian1985 (talk) 16:28, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

brick built "pre-fab" in th picture at start of article?

the caption for the pic at the start of the article says the housing is pre-fab, but it looks brick built. i am not aware of any pre-fabrication of brick buildings - instead they are constructed in-situ (and therefore not pre-fab!)

pre-fabs tend to be made from concrete (not brick!!!), or in the contxt of high-rise, from panels attached which are attached in-situ to an internal frame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.79.157 (talk) 18:45, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The houses in the picture in the article were only built in the 1960s and have since been demolished. It seems a bit oblique to include pictures of modern housing that was rendered unhabitable by the criminal and anti-social behavior of the local residents in an article on poverty. (86.136.184.148 (talk) 09:18, 20 February 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Absolute poverty statistics

The introduction of this article stated that 10.9 million residents were living in relative poverty, citing http://labourlist.org/2014/07/number-of-people-living-in-absolute-poverty-rises-to-almost-11-million/ - however, the citation states that this is the number living in absolute poverty. I have corrected this.

The article cited above seems to be taking stats from the following document https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/325416/households-below-average-income-1994-1995-2012-2013.pdf, "Summery of 2012/13 estimates section". This makes it clear the stat refers to 2013, so I've updated the intro to reflect this. Note that the report refers to 'absolute low income,' which may not be compatible with the term 'absolute poverty'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.202.211 (talk) 14:42, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the word tragically

Something being tragic or not is subjective opinion, and is not objective language. Please do not put it back in.

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 The article cited above seems to be taking stats from the following document https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/325416/households-below-average-income-1994-1995-2012-2013.pdf, "Summery of 2012/13 estimates section". This makes it clear the stat refers to 2013, so I've updated the intro to reflect this. Note that the report refers to 'absolute low income,' which may not be compatible with the term 'absolute poverty'.  <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/86.20.202.211|86.20.202.211]] ([[User talk:86.20.202.211|talk]]) 14:42, 7 April 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+==I removed the word tragically==
+Something being tragic or not is subjective opinion, and is not objective language. Please do not put it back in.