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Between 2002/03 and 2019/20 the number of people in very deep poverty (below 40% of median income after housing costs) increased by 1.8 million, from 4.7 million to 6.5 million people.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation will be doing more work to explore the drivers of deep poverty, as they begin to look at what it would take to ‘design-out’ destitution in the UK -redesigning systems so they don’t cause or perpetuate hardship.
People in workless households, living in a family with a disabled family member or one headed by someone who is not white, are significantly overrepresented in very deep poverty.
