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POVERTY TRAVESTY I n a recent report by children’s charity Unicef, it was found that the UK accounted for 14 per cent of all the “severely, materially deprived” children in 41 of the world’s strongest economies. In what they term the “Great Recession,” from 2008 onwards, “the proportion of children with severe material deprivation increased sharply in the countries most affected.” The UK was among four countries seeing “unprecedented increases” in levels of child poverty. In summary, Unicef laments the impact
of the global recession, brought about by a cowboy financial sector, on the world’s children saying it has “had the greatest impact on the weakest.”
It also seems that Manchester’s children are bearing the brunt worst of all. Since being declared the ‘child poverty capital’ of Britain in 2011, data from 2012 claimed that 38 per cent of Mancunian kids lived below the poverty line and the constituency of Manchester Central – covering areas like Moss Side and Hulme, Ardwick, Miles Platting and Newton Heath – had the highest in the
UK, with 47 per cent – almost half – of youngsters forced to live with the challenges faced by a childhood in poverty. 200 years ago, it was Friedrich Engels’ visit to these very areas that drove him, alongside Karl Marx, to write the Communist Manifesto.
The ‘Great Recession’ it may be, but not everyone has suffered since the start of this global economic crisis. The inequality between the richest and poorest is alarming. We, and our kids, are being exploited by systems that allow the rich to get richer and the poor to
get poorer. A recent report by Oxfam claims that since the 2008 financial meltdown – brought about by some of the richest people and companies in the world – the amount of billionaires (now over 1,600) in the world has doubled, and they say the disparity has reached “extreme levels.” Why aren’t they feeling the crisis? Another astounding statistic, again from Oxfam, says that if Bill Gates was to spend one MILLION dollars a day, it would take him 218 YEARS to run out of money, and he’s not even the worlds’ richest.
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