19/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Slight increase in poverty in EU since 2008 crisis. According to a report by the International Labor Organisation (ILO) published on Wednesday 18 May, there has been a slight increase in poverty over the past few years in EU countries. According to ILO experts "relative poverty" rates (the percentage of the population whose income is below 60% of the median equivalent income in the EU) remained fairly stable at 16.5% between 2005 and 2008 but has experienced an upward trend since then, rising from 16.8% in 2012 to 17.2% in 2014. Over the same postcrisis period, this rate remained stable in the US and rose very slightly in Japan. This report, Transforming Jobs to End Poverty, can be found at the following address: http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/weso/2016-transforming-jobs/WCMS_481534/lang--en/index.htm . (EH)