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Child Poverty Levels On The Rise in the UK in 2015
26th June 2015
New figures find a rise in child poverty. Hundreds of thousands more children are now living in poverty in the UK. A report's found there are nearly four million youngsters struggling to make ends meet. This short Sky News report looks at the data.The government is a long way off the ambitious target of eliminating child poverty by 2020. Will they change the basis for the definition of child poverty? This Guardian article has more background http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/25/num... and the Parliamentary Research web site has a tidy summary of all of the key poverty data - http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBri...
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