{"id":178585,"date":"2015-09-05T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=178585"},"modified":"2015-09-05T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:09:23","slug":"376000-people-relative-poverty-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/376000-people-relative-poverty-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018376,000 people in relative poverty in Northern Ireland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">A new study reveals a <\/span><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">rise in poverty in Northern Ireland in 2014 with the level going\u00a0to 21%, up from <\/span><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">19% the previous year.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">The Households Below Average Income annual report was published on Thursday by the Department of Social Development and covers 2013-14<\/span><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">. <\/span><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">It shows<\/span><span style=\"color: windowtext;\"> 376,000 people remained on relatively low incomes with average household income dropping by 1%.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Among the\u00a0households, 213,000 working-age adults and 63,000 pensioners were living on the breadline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">The shocking figure was about the child poverty with\u00a023% or 101,000 falling into this category, up from 20% the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">Save the Children&#8217;s Peter Bryson has hit out at the level of child poverty. &#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable that 23% of children in Northern Ireland are now living in poverty, with numbers expected to rise even further,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: windowtext;\">&#8220;Northern Ireland is still an area with living standards well below those for the rest of the United Kingdom,&#8221; Economist John Simpson said while commenting on the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/04\/427733\/Study-reveals-grim-poverty-in-N-Ireland\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals a rise in poverty in Northern Ireland in 2014 with the level going\u00a0to 21%, up from 19% the previous year. The Households Below Average Income annual report was published on Thursday by the Department of Social Development and covers 2013-14. It shows 376,000 people remained on relatively low incomes with average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}