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How can children learn when they are wracked by poverty?
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While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
IT’S 2024, in the sixth-richest nation on the planet, and child poverty stalks the land.
Twelve million people — 18 per cent of the entire UK population — are living in absolute poverty, 3.6 million of them children.
Nearly a fifth of people are struggling to meet basic needs and an additional 300,000 children have fallen into poverty over a 12-month period.
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