Wealth Gap at 40 year high

Research published today (17 July) by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation suggests that the gap between the riches and the poorest in our society has reached a level not seen for over forty year. At the same time, more households have become poor over the last 15 years

The lead researcher Danny Dorling, is quoted as saying “Most interesting and certainly unexpected when this work began is the geography of those households who are neither rich nor poor. Over time it has become clear that there is less and less room in the south for them; they have either moved elsewhere, or become poor.”

This is clearly very worrying and suggests the need for an urgent and radical rethink on central government policy.