[moonrab]

[red3]

What danger?

[Alice Alicia]

becoming United Beggardom.

[K88 shu shu]

SGP is lucky to have PAP and LHL.

[moonrab]

What danger?

Watch the video lo...🤣
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[EvertonDiehard]

SGP is lucky to have PAP and LHL.

Is that so? Why then did 95% of jobs created in S'pore in 2023 and 89% in 2022 go to foreigners?

[Clyde]

But the government gave so much money and weapons to Ukraine.

[Migrant]

But the government gave so much money and weapons to Ukraine.

Their master US pulled the string. 
No choice.

[Gemstar]

SGP is lucky to have PAP and LHL.

You are so lucky to pay more GST. Good luck to you.

[starbugs]

The issue with the UK is that too many people want to go live in London and the smaller towns become abandoned. Their govt didn't try to spread wealth and jobs across the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQnCjmMTzM&pp=ygUPdWsgZ2hvc3QgdG93bnMg

[WhatDoYouThink!]

Is it true that homelessness is getting worse in western countries, and not so bad in asia?

[moonrab]

[lvlrsSTI]

[RiseofAsia]

SGP is lucky to have PAP and LHL.

Is LKY lah.

[sclim]

But the government gave so much money and weapons to Ukraine.

where is your source of this noise.  no true in it at all. please eat it all back.

[lvlrsSTI]

[Lukongsimi]

I am so lucky to pay more GST. Good luck to me

[teaserteam]

Many of these are just politically motivated reports.  Just like we also read about many Singaporeans are poor and they were found sleeping in the HDB void deck and pushing carts etc etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co...in_poverty

UK's cost and standard of living is high,  so the expectation will be high and the national poverty line will be high comparing to poorer countries.  One fair assessment is to compare the countries on societal poverty line which is a global measurement of relative poverty.

https://academic.oup.com/wber/article-ab...80/5611143

The following is the picture using societal poverty measurement

[revealer]

Yes. Fairer to use societal poverty line rather than National line. societal povert line is based on national survey. A person is defined as poor when his income is $1/day less than 50% of the National medium income.

[Clyde]

Since these people need spoon feeding:

UK military assistance The UK is one of the leading donors to Ukraine, alongside the US and Germany. The UK has pledged £12.5 billion in support to Ukraine since February 2022, of which £7.6 billion is for military assistance. This includes £3 billion for military assistance in 2024/25.2 May 2024

Military assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/res.../cbp-9477/

Waste my time searching.

[moonrab]

https://bbc.com/news/uk-68625344

Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
22 March 2024
By Robert Cuffe,
Head of statistics, BBC Verify

Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands more people fell into absolute poverty.
The figure jumped to 12 million in 2022-2023, a rise of 600,000.

This means the rate of absolute poverty in the UK now stands at 18% - a rise of 0.78 percentage points.
Absolute poverty is the measure used by the prime minister when describing the government's record.

Even more families would have fallen into absolute poverty had it not been for government support like the Cost of Living payments.

Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride - whose department compiled the figures - pointed to the government's "biggest cost of living package in Europe, worth an average of £3,800 per household".

The government says that without these measure the increase would have been three times worse.

Mr Stride said the government's "unprecedented support prevented 1.3 million people from falling into poverty in 2022-23".

He also pointed to rising pensions and benefits levels this year, which will be on top of the 10% increase in both that came into effect just after these figures were collected.

Quarter of children in absolute poverty
The level of absolute poverty among pensioners barely changed on the year and remains at one of the lowest levels on record.

Pensioners were eligible for extra cost-of-living support like the £300 top-up to the Winter Fuel Payment.
But the number of children and of working-age adults in poverty each rose by about 300,000 people.

In these figures, a quarter of children were in absolute poverty.
The two percentage point rise in the rate of child poverty is the highest since at least the mid 1990s.

How is poverty measured?

There are two main measurements of low income used by the government. 
Income is counted as the money a household has to spend after housing costs are taken into account.
Absolute poverty  measures how many people this year cannot afford a set standard of living. 

The Department for Work and Pensions currently defines it based on the living standard an average income could buy in the year ending in March 2011. 
If your income is 40% below this, after adjusting for rising prices since then, you are classed as living in absolute poverty.
Relative poverty is the number of people whose income is 40% below the average income today.


True picture on living standards of the poorest is worse
Someone who is in "absolute" or "relative" poverty may not be able to afford a living standard that might be expected in a rich economy like the UK.

But that does not mean they need a food bank or are unable to heat their home.
When you look at these types of poverty, the increases are more stark.
"Official income statistics have understated the true increase in deprivation during this period" says Sam Ray-Chaudhuri of think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

He points out that the rate of food insecurity rose from 8% of individuals to 11% and the proportion unable to heat their home more than doubled from 4% to 11%.

Even pensioners saw an increase in the number unable to heat their home adequately, even though the headline measure of poverty fell slightly.
And the number of people who said they used food banks in the last month rose from 0.9% to 1.5%.
Labour said the statistics were "horrifying" and contrasted their record on reducing child poverty with that of the Conservatives.
"The Conservative government crashed the economy and unleashed a cost of living crisis, pushing families across the country into poverty" said shadow employment and social security minister Alison McGovern.

The figures were a "wake-up call moment", according to the Liberal Democrats.
"This is a devastating rise and behind these numbers will be stories of children going hungry and families unable to heat their homes," said the party's Treasury spokesperson Sarah Olney.
Shirley-Anne Somerville of the Scottish National Party said: "We are doing everything in our powers and limited budget to tackle poverty in Scotland."

[revealer]

They must b thinking UK is a fool.  Country is so poor and yet can donate to Ukraine. A poor man in UK might live like a rich man in a poor African state.

[revealer]

https://bbc.com/news/uk-68625344

Poverty goes up and down.  UK and Europe dipped into technical recession when Ukraine war started.  Pple will b out of job,  poverty will rise. They hv just come out from recession this qtr. Hope things will return to normal.

[cityhantam]

Homeless Crisis In England's Poshest City 🇬🇧
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[aiptasia]

The UK is mired in third world living conditions now with only a few pockets of affluence mostly located in the greater London metropolitan area. The likes of KL and Bangkok provide better living conditions than much of the UK LOL!

[Clyde]

Homeless Crisis In England's Poshest City 🇬🇧
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These angmo should come to Singapore and look for a job as teacher in the child development/tuition centre. Some parents are willing to pay high course fees to put their children through the classes.

Many years back, there was a parent who boasted to me about his son attending very expensive classes conduct by a native angmo. When I checked his credentials, found that he has no Diploma, Degree, certification,nothing.

[cityhantam]

These angmo should come to Singapore and look for a job as teacher in the child development/tuition centre. Some parents are willing to pay high course fees to put their children through the classes.

Many years back, there was a parent who boasted to me about his son attending very expensive classes conduct by a native angmo. When I checked his credentials, found that he has no Diploma, Degree, certification,nothing.

Many years ago.......!!!!

Now difficult liao!