Shocking changes in UK child poverty

Addiction Economy Thought for Today - we like our graphics and that is the most shocking we have seen from Prof Danny Dorling in "Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today" - a must read in The Conversation.

https://lnkd.in/e9N8nez7

“They are becoming shorter in height. More of them are going hungry than they were a few years ago. Recently, more have died each year than they did a few years ago. Increased poverty, more destitution and the effects of ongoing austerity are the clear culprits.”

They are shorter from lack of nutrition because the cheapest food, has little nutritional content.

This is from his new book Seven Children Inequality and Britain's Next Generation. He has a website on the book here:

https://lnkd.in/eXZQNG7b

This shocked us most:

"Few people know that the number of financial penalties, the ‘sanctions’, that have been imposed on benefit claimants by the Department for Work and Pensions, now exceeds the number of fines imposed by the magistrates’ courts for all crimes of any kind committed in England and Wales and those imposed by sheriff courts in Scotland. … The vindictive laws applied here were made in 1998 under New Labour, and then further tightened under the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government of 2010–15. So, all three political parties are culpable."

This is just so sickening and horrifying and depressingly sad. Both governments are responsible for this, but only one, this Labour government now has the power to do something about it and is still ducking issues of tax and regulating harmful industries. Wilful blindness perhaps?