an article by Benjamin Hennig and Danny Dorling published in The News Statesman on 13 March 2015
The largest falls in the proportions of households that are neither wealthy or poor has been in outer boroughs of London.
Today in England over a quarter (27 per cent) of households are poor, meaning that they are unable to take part in the norms of society, they are unable to purchase items which the majority of the population consider to be necessities and, very often, their children are unable to take part in relatively cheap school trips or have a birthday party because of lack of money. In recent years that proportion has been rising. These rises that have been documented in great detail by the UK government funded Economic and Social Research Council’s Poverty and Social Exclusion team.
Continue reading and you will find some very interesting maps
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