Almost 200,000 children living in consistent poverty across the State

Image: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie Image: Sasko Lazarov/Rollingnews.ie ALMOST 200,000 CHILDREN are living in poverty across the State despite average household incomes increasing last year.

Despite that small decrease in those at risk of poverty in 2019, concerns have been raised following today’s release of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions from the CSO. Despite wage growth, increased employment and very high rates of economic growth last year, these figures show that a significant proportion of the population is still living in very difficult circumstances.” Dr Tricia Keilthy, head of social justice at St Vincent de Paul, said there was some some progress between 2016 and 2017 when 25,000 children were lifted out of poverty.

“Now more than ever, with the pandemic disproportionately impacting low income families, it is essential that child poverty is held as a political priority across Government departments and throughout the political system,” said Keilthy. #Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youThe rate of consistent poverty among children in 2019 stood at 8.1%, this compares to 5.1% for adults aged 18-64 and 2.3 % for those over the age of 65.

Watch our tories call it lies now..

Poverty = less than 5 Nintendo switch games.

200k.... How many children are there in total!?!? That must be 1/3 of all children in Ireland. I smell manure headline.

No MarcusRashford in the irish sporting scene to fight for these kids. BrianODriscoll TheNotoriousMMA KatieTaylor et al?

You need to start fact checking your own headlines.

'Poverty' is a percentage of the median household income. Therefore poverty is statistically impossible to eliminate! So, the 'despite' above is irrelevant. If average household income was €10 million, then those poor creatures taking in €5 million would be in poverty.

Time to consider a living wage for all in our little country.

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