GreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year agoMore than 11 million Britons have less than £1,000 in savingswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down11
arrow-up160arrow-down1external-linkMore than 11 million Britons have less than £1,000 in savingswww.theguardian.comGreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareAnticorplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThat’s approximately 16% of the population.
minus-squarepalordrolap@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoOf the total population. The working-age population is probably half that, which doubles that 16% to 32%. Let’s see a newspaper run with “Austerity gone wrong: One in three Britons have no savings” But then that’s too many words for a front page.
minus-squareAnticorplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoOof, that definitely paints a more dire picture.
That’s approximately 16% of the population.
Of the total population.
The working-age population is probably half that, which doubles that 16% to 32%.
Let’s see a newspaper run with “Austerity gone wrong: One in three Britons have no savings”
But then that’s too many words for a front page.
Oof, that definitely paints a more dire picture.