Title: Most people classed as being in poverty 'have job' - BBC News
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Most people classed as being in poverty 'have job'
'Little security'
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Most people classed as being in poverty 'have job'
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8 December 2013
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Researchers said the number of people in low-paid jobs had risen, with average incomes falling by 8% since their peak in 2008
More working households were living in poverty in the UK last year than non-working ones - for the first time, a charity has reported. Just over half of the 13 million people in poverty - surviving on less than 60% of the national median (middle) income - were from working families, it said. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said low pay and part-time work had prompted an unprecedented fall in living standards. But it said the number of pensioners in poverty was at a 30-year low. Ministers insisted that work remained the best route out of poverty and said the government's welfare reforms would further encourage people to get a job. 'Little security'
The JRF's annual Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion report was written by the New Policy Institute and tracks a range of indicators, including government data and surveys covering income, education and social security. The poverty measure it defines is based on net household income, adjusted for family size and after housing costs have been deducted. In the 2011-12 period, the amount of earnings before a household was said to be in poverty was £128 a week for a single adult; £172 for a single parent with one child; £220 for a couple with no children, and £357 for a couple with two children.