CAUSES OF POVERTY
XO WORK OR LOW WAGE
LIFE IN LONDON TODAY
■ . LONDON, March 1. The percentage of London's population living below the poverty-line is 9A per .cent., : compared with 30 per cent, in ISS9.. • ■ v ! The total today is- 490,000, of whom 54,000 are in institutions. TJnemployj ment is usually the cause of. poverty, j also "an insufficient' wage; Two-thirds of the working-class families had wages 19s above the minimum. There are 210,000 Jews in Greater j London compared with 05,000 in 18S9. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 7
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85CAUSES OF POVERTY Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 7
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