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.
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.
