You can have a job and still be poor

1st August 2006
By Peter Kenway

In-work poverty is a major issue which is growing in importance. Over the last decade, the UK has been very successful in creating jobs. Where there has been much less success, however, is in the quality of the jobs that have been created. From a poverty perspective, the net result is that, whilst out-of-work poverty has been falling, in-work poverty has, at best, been steady.

Half of all children in poverty — 1.7 million children — now live in households where at leas…