POVERTY AND COVID-19 - POVERTY AND COVID-19 - A report of the Social Metrics Commission

Based on the approach of the Social Metrics Commission’s poverty measurement framework, it provides early indications of the likely scale and nature of poverty impacts coming from the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. [...] Whilst the overall impacts of the pandemic on UK poverty are by no means certain, given the scale of the negative changes in employment statuses for those in poverty, under the Commission’s measure of poverty: 2 | Social Metrics Commission | Poverty and Covid-19 POVERTY AND COVID-19 • Many of those already in poverty could move deeper into poverty as a result of losing their jobs or having lower e. [...] The Commission’s Measuring Poverty 2020 report provided the most up-to-date estimates of poverty prior to the Covid-19 pandemic;i detailing the incidence of poverty as well as poverty depth, poverty persistence and the Lived Experience of those in poverty compared to those not in poverty, against a range of indicators. [...] For the first time, the Commission’s report also split the overall group of people in poverty based on the nature of the poverty they experience, in terms of poverty depth and poverty persistence. [...] 5 | Social Metrics Commission | Poverty and Covid-19 POVERTY AND COVID-19 UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS OF COVID-19 The Commission’s Measuring Poverty 2020 report provides vital insights into the extent and nature of poverty across the UK prior to the Covid-19 crisis, and how policies might be focussed in order to tackle it.