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