Tuesday 25 June 2013

Two thirds of children in poverty living in working families

A press release from the Child Poverty Action Group says:

The newly-released annual statistics for 2011/12 showed no change to relative poverty, but 300,000 more children in absolute poverty. The relative poverty statistics also showed that two-thirds of the children below the relative poverty line are now from families in work. Read more on the statistics

See also Alison Garnham’s blog: We are leaving our children utterly exposed


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