#177 Poverty and Mental Health
Welcome to the 177th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. We’ve had two great kick-off episodes with Maya Kalaria and Dan Ram, now we have a mini-series on poverty and mental health for the rest of January.
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Show Notes
Welcome to the 177th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. We’ve had two great kick-off episodes with Maya Kalaria and Dan Ram, now we have a mini-series on poverty and mental health for the rest of January.
On today’s show
- Why I chose to cover this topic [00:55]
- The definition of poverty. [01:17]
- Why we need to consider the idea of absolute and relative poverty. [03:34]
- How poverty is measured in the UK. [05:54]
- What workplaces can do to tackle in-work poverty. [13:48]
Quotes
- Poverty refers to lacking enough resources to provide the necessities of life.
- Absolute poverty refers to people whose incomes fall below a line set by a given country.
- Having a really awful manager and awful circumstances around you at work can cause mental ill health.
- Employment status is linked to mental health outcomes.
- Now if people want flexible jobs, and they want to work on an hourly basis, I respect that. But they shouldn't be doing it in a precarious way where they get no sick pay, and they get no benefits.
Resources
- Leave me an anonymous message on my SpeakPipe
- UN Global Poverty Index 2018
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation Solve Poverty
- CIPD Reward Management Survey
- Poverty and Mental Health Report
- Mind’s Report on Poverty and Mental Health
- Real living wage
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