The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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The government’s recently published poverty numbers (available at www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai.asp) showed that the number of children in poverty actually rose during 2005/6. This rise, together with the failure to meet the target of reducing child poverty by a quarter by 2004/5, means that we are now way off track to meet the government’s target of halving child poverty by 2010.
It is of course important not to read too much into one year’s data. First, the data is from…
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