Editing Working poor (section)

===Relative===
In Europe and other non-US, high-income countries, poverty and working poverty are defined in relative terms.  A relative measure of poverty is based on a country's income distribution rather than an absolute amount of money. [[Eurostat]], the statistical office of the [[European Union]], classifies a household as poor if its income is less than 60 percent of the country's median household income.  According to Eurostat, a relative measure of poverty is appropriate because "minimal acceptable standards usually differ between societies according to their general level of prosperity: someone regarded as poor in a rich developed country might be regarded as rich in a poor developing country."<ref name="Eurostat poverty">{{cite web| last=European Working Conditions Observatory| title=Income Poverty in the European Union| url=http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/surveyreports/EU0703019D/EU0703019D_3.htm| publisher=Eurostat| access-date=2011-12-14| archive-date=2011-10-08| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008213558/http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/ewco/surveyreports/EU0703019D/EU0703019D_3.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to the latest data the UK's working poor rate is 10%, with the median income being £507 per week in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN07096|title=Households Below Average Income: An Analysis of the UK Income Distribution: 1994/95 - 2017/18|date=28 March 2019|website=Department for Work & Pensions}}</ref>