3.8m children in total poverty as families hit the ‘tipping point’

[alan_mac]

Fascinating note in Wiki regarding how we define poverty:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty...d_and_measured

"The most common measure, as used in the Child Poverty Act 2010, is ‘household income below 60 percent of median income’. The median is the income earned by the household in the middle of the income distribution"