Re: Relative poverty, a problem?

On Mar 30, 11:00 am, Nospam <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Kolker wrote:
puntontg wrote:
In the last few day its been in the news that the number of children
living in relative poverty (60% of medianincome) in the UK has risen
in the last year. I was wondering if people think this is actually a
serious problem?

Are these children starving to death? Have they become a law enforcement
problem?

They will.
Poverty and to much disparity is guaranteed to generate violence.

Based on what? People have been far poorer than these "poor"
children and not resorted to widespread criminality. Why is someone
else being rich a reason to become a theif (besides the obvious
opportunity)?

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