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More children living in poverty despite Labour targets
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
19 June 2008
Economists have pointed to a growing gap between rich and poor in the UK as Government figures revealed that the number of children living in poverty rose by 100,000 to 3.9 million in 2006-2007.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies analysed the 'Households Below Average Income' report from the Department for Work and Pensions, which takes household income as its measure of living standards. Income for most households 'barely grew... while income grew rapidly for the rich and fell for the poor', the report said. The IFS said that poverty and inequality had both increased for the second year in a row as benefit and...
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