Welfare policies like the two-child limit are responsible. Child poverty will reach a record high by 2023/2024, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation think-tank – passing the previous highs of the 1990s.
The report says that child poverty is likely to have risen by 4% between 2016/2017 and 2018/2019 and will rise by 6% between 2016/2017 and 2023/2024.
This would mean an extra one million children are living in poverty, the report’s author Adam Corlett said.Between 1996/1997 and 2013/2014, the average child poverty rate for working households was 20%. The Resolution Foundation predicts it will reach 29% by […]
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