Millions of Britons are living below the poverty line

Twenty percent of the working population of the UK have a salary that is incompatible with life.
This shocking news was presented to the population of the United Kingdom study respectable audit firm KPMG. Incompatibility with the life of another wage translates nedotyagivanie received at work and equipment to the required minimum standards for social bracket. This is a situation where the worker can not turn a cold winter home heating system or buy a child a warm winter jacket, not to mention such luxuries as of leave or pay for university.

Nearly five million Britons, as it turned out, do not have any of those eight pounds thirty pence hourly earnings, which is calculated as the level of "basic standards of life" for Londoners, not even those seven pounds thirty pence, which would be enough for them to "basic life" for outside the financial capital of the world. Thus a fifth of UK workers were below the poverty line. Particularly difficult to account for, according to the report KPMG, poorly paid workers, "catering" and retail trade, waiters, bartenders and vendors. Slightly better staff security guards, cleaners and social workers who care for disabled and seriously ill. Most of those living below the poverty found in Northern Ireland and Wales - where they were 23 percent. In London, below the poverty line fell 570,000 people.

It is noteworthy that the minimum wage in the UK is designed to at least below the subsistence level and is only 6 pounds 19 pence per hour. With these earnings to pay taxes and make contributions to the pension funds. True, on November 4, this strap will be reviewed, as expected, in the direction of some increase. No less remarkable and more: the other day it was officially announced the release of the British economy out of the deepest recession since the war. To the surprise of experts, the economy achieved an increase of one percent. However, the recession has left deep scars in the form of raised taxes and lifted inflation. Four out of ten low-wage workers and employees in the UK suggests that after the recession in their wallets even more poorly than a month ago.

Recently announced five major UK energy suppliers a significant increase in prices for gas and electricity, soaring food prices and public transportation only prove that living in Britain on one salary is for the millions of its citizens, "Mission Impossible".


In other European countries, the situation of poverty, too joyless.

According to the Italian National Institute of Statistics, in 2012, 8.173 million people in the Apennines were in the category "poorer", and 3.415 million Italians have felt themselves to be poor in all senses of the word. The Apennines, the relative poverty threshold for a family of two, is the total monthly income of 1.011 thousand euros. Anything below that amount, the absolute poverty.

Who in France called the poor? Person whose monthly income is below 60 percent of the average cost of living (SPM) in the country. That is the one that lives on less than 954 euros a month. According to the National Center for Accounting poverty and social exclusion in the country now has 8.2 million citizens who fall into this category. And two million of them, again according to the official statistics, can be classified as "very poor." It is those who make ends meet, getting 40 percent of the MTA in a month, that is 640 euros, most likely in the form of one of the types of social benefits.

Germany's share of the poor in 2011, according to the Federal Statistical Office, was 11 million people. That is one in seven adult German should be considered poor. Monthly salary of the German "poor" should be below 850 euros per month. And the 4.5 million recipients of unemployment benefits do have a little more than 380 euros - this monthly benefit amount. How they make ends meet the cost of living in 850 euros? Crank up by payments from which they actually released and the other families that consume the lion's share of income: rent, charges for telephone, water and electricity.

Bulgaria is hardly a successful European power. Country firmly in last place in the EU in terms of living standards, "competing" for this indicator only with Romania. The European Commission, in its report called Bulgaria EU country, which in the short term most threatened mass impoverishment. The most difficult to live retired. In 2011, the average pension amounted to 266 leva, or about 135 euros, the minimum age - 145 (75 euros). Survive on the money almost impossible.