Distribution of poverty, wealth, and income poverty patterns

Children: 4.2 million children in relative poverty in 2022–23, with highest rates in large families.
- Highlights long-term generational impact.
Family type: lone-parent families have 44% poverty rate compared to 24% for couple families.
- Suggests family structure interacts with labour market disadvantage.
Ethnicity: (👤 Zilanawala et al, 2015) Pakistani and Bangladeshi households experience around 50% poverty rates compared to 18% of white households.
- Largely linked to structural discrimination and low-paid employment.
Disability: families with disabled members face 31% poverty rate compared to 18% with no disabled members.
- Costs of disability and workplace barriers reinforce inequality.
Work: 69% of children in poverty live in a household with at least one working adult.
- Disproves assumption that work alone ends poverty.
👤 Piketty (2013): wealth is more unequally distributed than income; the richest 10% hold 43% of wealth while the poorest 50% hold 9%.
- Highlights persistence of inequality in capitalist economies

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