Trends in UK Inequality and Poverty (opens in new tab)

Popular discussion of inequality or poverty in the UK is often confused because there are many different measures of both. [1] Some facts are largely immune to measurement issues, like the fact that UK inequality and poverty increased significantly in the 1980s. Bourquin, Brewer and Wernham provide a good discussion, and this chart is taken from there. So, for example, the ratio of the post-tax income of the top 10% compared to the bottom 10% rose substantially in the second half of the 1980s...