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Assorted Links (27 Jan 2010): Focus on poverty and inequality

Geoff Riley

27th January 2010

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There has been a fresh series of reports on the scale of relative poverty in the UK. Here are some relevant links:

1/ BBC news video: Divide between rich and poor ‘wider than 1970s’

2/ Guardian: 2 million pensioners live in poverty

3/ Guardian: Unequal Britain: richest 10% are now 100 times better off than the poorest. 1980s income gap still not plugged, say analysts

4/ Independent: On the right and right-on: a portrait of Britain today

5/ BBC news: Save the Children says severe child poverty ‘going up’

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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