{"id":193344,"date":"2015-10-21T19:39:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=193344"},"modified":"2015-10-21T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:39:57","slug":"1-2-mn-londoners-working-families-living-poverty-uk-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/1-2-mn-londoners-working-families-living-poverty-uk-study\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2 mn Londoners in working families living in poverty: UK study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>A recently released study says\u00a0that more than one million people living in working families\u00a0<\/strong><strong>in London\u00a0<\/strong><strong>are currently living in poverty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study released by the New Policy Institute, funded by the Trust for London charity, says that some 1.2 million Londoners living in working families, more than a quarter of its population, live in poverty. The figure shows a 70-percent rise in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>However, the number of people living in destitution\u00a0in other parts of\u00a0England has registered a 20-percent rise only.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, a total of about two million people in the capital are living on low incomes.<\/p>\n<p>The research found that London has witnessed an increase\u00a0in the number of low-pay jobs for the fifth consecutive year, with about one fifth of those occupations failing to pay the London Living Wage, currently at \u00a39.15 ($14.11) an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Temporary jobs were also at a 10-year high in London, which has also seen\u00a0a 19-percent increase in rent rates since 2010, the report said. Rent\u00a0costs in London are currently more than double the average across\u00a0England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/10\/21\/434324\/UK-London-England-New-Policy-Institute-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently released study says\u00a0that more than one million people living in working families\u00a0in London\u00a0are currently living in poverty. The study released by the New Policy Institute, funded by the Trust for London charity, says that some 1.2 million Londoners living in working families, more than a quarter of its population, live in poverty. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,52,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-money","9":"category-latest-news","10":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193344","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=193344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}