Poverty and Inequality in the UK: 2008

<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p>The Government's latest figures on the distribution of income and the extent of relative poverty in the UK will be released by the Department for Work and Pensions on Tuesday 10 June. The IFS will be releasing a report on the latest figures and recent trends on Wednesday 11 June. </p><p>This briefing will assess: </p><ul><li>How average incomes in Britain have continued to change and what has been happening to the gap between rich and poor; <li>Whether the surprise rise in child poverty evident in the previous year of data was a one-off or the start of a new trend; <li>The latest trends in pensioner poverty, and what has happened to poverty amongst groups less favoured by Government tax and benefit policies. <li>How the level and changes in living standards and poverty rates vary across the regions of the United Kingdom<li>What we can learn from the new material deprivation measure of child poverty</ul><P>This report will be launched on Wednesday 11 June at the IFS offices in Ridgmount Street, London. The briefing will start at 10:30am and is expected to conclude by 12.30pm.</p><p>Places at this briefing are free of charge and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.</p></p></p></p>