Poorest 80% of population have seen their share of incomes drop since 1979

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Explaining the data

This chart is taken from Professor John Hills’s book 'Changing Lives, Welfare State. Why we really are all in it together’ published by ‘Policy Press’ in November 2014 The figures are taken from earlier analyses by Jenkins SP and Cowell F 'Dwarfs and Giants in the 1980s: Trends in UK income distribution' (1993) and Adams N, Carr J, Collins J, Johnson G and Matejic P, Households Below Average Income: An analysis of the income distribution, 1994/95 to 2010/11(2012). 

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