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Childcare key to cutting inequality

Graham Watson

15th November 2016

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This article highlights the one of the major reasons for income inequality: difficulties with childcare.

According to newly released research, improved childcare would have a more significant effect on reducing inequality than "increases in part-time pay, encouragement to take up unclaimed benefits, and efforts to increase housing supply had less effect on inequality".

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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