{"id":89396,"date":"2026-05-19T06:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89396"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:56:09","slug":"uk-more-children-are-living-in-poverty-despite-both-parents-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/19\/uk-more-children-are-living-in-poverty-despite-both-parents-working\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: More children are living in poverty despite both parents working"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1PSXra.img?w=534&amp;h=280&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The number of children living in poverty in working households has soared, according to the IPPR (Ian West\/PA) (PA Wire)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Children<\/a>\u00a0are now significantly more likely than two decades ago to be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/child-poverty-strategy-keir-starmer-labour-b2878615.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">growing up in<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">poverty<\/a> despite all adults in their household working full time, new research has found<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/more-children-are-living-in-poverty-despite-both-parents-working\/ar-AA23w3gJ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a0c05e795b34810b46a77282d002697&amp;ei=33\">. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Children\u00a0are now significantly more likely than two decades ago to be\u00a0growing up in\u00a0poverty despite all adults in their household working full time,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cost-of-living-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/child-poverty.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89397,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89396\/revisions\/89397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}