Wealth Inequalities

Question 1

Unemployment can leave individuals unable to pay for essentials such as food and clothing.

Answer 1

In a recent survey by the Scottish Government 22% of respondents identified changing from a working to a workless household as the casual factor in their experience of poverty

Question 2

Education and skills play a part in acquiring the required employment skills an individual needs compared to their affluent counterpart

Answer 2

According to The JRF, 40% of the UK population who experience poverty have no formal qualifications

Question 3

Geographical location can affect access to education as there is a difference throughtout the UK

Answer 3

According to UCAS, English students can pay up to
£9,250 a year to go to
university

Question 4

Low pay can restrain many individual’s livelihood as they earn sufficient to keep up with the living cost.

Answer 4

According to The Scottish Government, It is estimated that in 2019-22, 69% of children in relative poverty after housing costs were living in working households (170,000 children each year)

Question 5

Certain age groups are far more vunerable to succumbing to poverty.

Answer 5

According to PovertyInequality.Scot, 1 in 4 children in Scotland are living in poverty

Question 6

Biological sex (gender) has made it difficult for women to earn similarly to their work effort due to the glass ceiling.

Answer 6

According to the Guardian, in 2022 for every £1 a man earns, a woman earns 90p.