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Child Poverty: One in five children in homes without jobs
By Karen Faux,
Nursery World,
20 February 2008
More than 2.2 million children in the UK are living in workless households, according to latest Government figures. This means that one in five children are living with parents or carers who exist entirely on benefits.
The country's highest proportion of benefit dependency is in the Manchester Central constituency, where almost half of children are living in such households. Other areas with a density of unemployed families include Liverpool, Glasgow and the London boroughs of Islington and Tower Hamlets. The new statistics show that the UK has one of the highest proportions of workless households in Europe and suggest that...
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