rowntree

• ROWNTREE SURVEYS:

  • Similarly, Seebohm Rowntree’s Inquiry - Poverty, a Study of Town Life - found that 30% of York’s population were in extreme poverty. Rowntree’s report established that poverty wasn’t just in London and he argued that something had to be done to tackle poverty across Britain.
• ROWNTREE SURVEYS:

  • Rowntree studied the relationship between earnings and the price of food to establish how much money a family needed in order to avoid poverty. This level of income was known as the ‘Poverty Line’.
• ROWNTREE SURVEYS:

  • Rowntree found that a significant number of people were well below this ‘poverty line’, many of whom were elderly citizens no longer in employment.
• ROWNTREE ANALYSIS (AGAINST):

  The mention of secondary poverty gave people opposed to helping the poor an excuse not to do so – their poverty was their fault.