Child poverty in Britain ‘set to soar to new record’ | The Guardian
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Any country that wants to think of itself as civilised wouldn't allow this, nor would they cause this through their political decisions. It is a national scandal. #ToryWinterCrisis pic.twitter.com/8CjpWrMSAd
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The number of children living in poverty will soar to a record 5.2 million over the next five years as government welfare cuts bite deepest on households with young families, a leading UK thinktank has said.
New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts an increase of more than a million in the number of children living in poverty, more than reversing all the progress made over the past 20 years.
The IFS said freezing benefits, the introduction of universal credit and less generous tax credits would mean a surge in child poverty and that the steepest increases would be in the most deprived parts of the country.
Source: Child poverty in Britain ‘set to soar to new record’ | Society | The Guardian
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This is utterly disgraceful and these nasty Tories aren’t finished yet. They won’t be happy until they’ve reduced the country to the 18th century levels of poverty and even then they’ll resent even a penny spent on anything or anyone but themselves.