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ALMOST a third of children in Britain are living in poverty, a damning study revealed yesterday.
The End Child Poverty coalition’s research, carried out by Loughborough University, found that 30 per cent of children live in households earning below 60 per cent of the median income.
More than half of children in some constituencies are living below that poverty line once housing costs are factored in, researchers found.
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